[Ads-l] locomotives as female

[Laurence Horn]

Right, you just have to make sure it's not a locomotif.

(Of course the younger generations haven't been raised on all those old movies in which love scenes pan to shots of trains entering tunnels.) 

LH

> On Apr 17, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> My nephew, who is a great train buff, the other day referred to a
> locomotive as "her."   I asked about the gender, and he said it's
> conventional to refer to locomotives as feminine.
> 
> New one for me.
> 
> Herb
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