{"id":12428,"date":"2009-10-04T22:53:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T05:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/10\/04\/ship-gender.html"},"modified":"2009-10-04T22:53:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T05:53:25","slug":"ship-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/10\/04\/ship-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship gender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It's traditional in English to refer to ships using female pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>I've known that all my life, but I think this is the first time I've consciously noticed a case of a ship bearing a male name being referred to as female: I listed carefully to the lyrics of the song \"<a href=\"http:\/\/ingeb.org\/songs\/fareweto.html\">The Leaving of Liverpool<\/a>\" this evening, and noticed this line:\n<blockquote>\n<p>Davy Crockett is her name <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This phenomenon is common enough that Wikipedia even mentions it. But I was nonetheless amused.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s traditional in English to refer to ships using female pronouns. I&#8217;ve known that all my life, but I think this is the first time I&#8217;ve consciously noticed a case&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}