kenanek:

everythingallofthetime:

tilthat:

TIL: Until the late 1400s the word ‘girl’ just meant a child of either sex. If you had to differentiate between them, male children were referred to as ‘knave girls’ and females were ‘gay girls‘.

via reddit.com

Where my knave gay girls at

the source doesn’t work but here is a fun guardian article about how word meanings have changed throughout history, especially in relation to gender

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And here is a cambridge dictionary blog entry about it

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