Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Pretty much every other language seems to have grammatical genders... so why doesn't English? Well, it used to.

Old English had three genders, meaning there were at least three different ways of saying "the". In this video, I explain how that worked and why it isn't the case anymore.

I also talk about the fact that we actually DO still have grammatical genders in a few rare instances.

APOLOGY: I realise I wrote the Greek for pen along with the other words for shirt. For this, I am eternally sorry.

==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Intro
1:03 Old English's 3 genders
2:00 When we had no word for "a"
2:54 Which objects had which gender?
4:07 Adjectives
4:59 Why no genders now?
6:17 Our journey to genderlessness
6:55 Goodbye