Recently when following a link to Wikipedia, there in the text my reading was interrupted by a word that just looks ugly: “possesses”. I find it a massively disturbing eyesore. Can I complain somewhere for that word to be changed?

  • ᗪIᐯEᖇGEᑎTᕼᗩᖇᗰOᑎIᑕᔕOP
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    1 year ago

    Yes i get that. And adding the -es makes it 3rd person present. But could we just add a bit of haptic structure to it, perhaps “pottesses”? You see, fewer s-es and more upward pointing letters already makes it bearable.

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      1 year ago

      I’m sure there’s someone out there who thinks that a “pottess” is a feminine “potter”.