Posted by Robert Hill on March 24, 2002 at 19:29:43 from 195.92.168.173:
In Reply to: Re: Ships as "she" posted by David Bamford on March 23, 2002 at 22:27:44:
I believe that in France ships are regarded as masculine, so that the
opposite of David Bamford's quandary can arise. For example, I remember reading many years ago about a major French ship called
"Le France", though the country itself is of course "la France".
So are there two opposing traditions in anglophone and francophone
Canada?