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I actually knew most of the words; apparently though I'm in the minority of men for not knowing taffeta. After looking it up, I'm slightly surprised that tulle is so much lower than taffeta given that both are used in gowns and I run into references to tulle in poetry all the time[1].

On the other hand, I am in good male company for being completely mystified by peplum only to find it's another word for "overskirt."

I'm also in the 1/8 of all men in not recognizing the word shemale, though if wikipedia is right it's just she-male missing the hyphen? Perhaps I was primed by all of the fashion words but I read it with a french pronunciation...

1: e.g. https://poets.org/poem/because-i-could-not-stop-death-479 (written by a woman)




Arrested Development make a joke about exactly that French mispronunciation. https://arresteddevelopment.fandom.com/wiki/Shémale_shirt


I know that one from Will and Grace with the Gay spelling bee!

I got most of the women ones a lot are clothes/fashion/hair. I guess gay helps get a larger vocabulary ;)


Evidently you-all haven't seen Clerks yet. Lucky, you still get to see it for the first time.


I saw it 20ish years ago.




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