A language instructor was explaining to her class that in French, nouns, unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine. “House,” in French, is feminine = “la maison.” “Pencil,” in French, is masculine = “le crayon.” One puzzled student asked, “What gender is ‘computer’?” The teacher did not know, and the word wasn’t in her French dictionary. So for fun she split the class into two groups by gender, and asked them to decide whether “computer” should be a masculine or feminine noun. They were required to give four reasons. The men’s group decided that computers are definitely of the feminine gender (“la computer”),

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