2 The majority of nouns indicating occupation have the same form:

2 The majority of nouns indicating occupation have the same form:

Artist, driver, guide, assistant, dancer and doctor... etc.

Main exceptions:

  • Actor: actress, host: hostess

  • Conductor: conductress, manager: manageress

  • Heir: Heiress, steward: stewardess

  • hero: heroine, waiter: waitress

  • Also salesman, saleswoman etc., but sometimes -person is used instead of –man,-woman: salesperson, spokesperson.

  • Domestic animals and many of the larger wild animals have different forms:

    Bull: cow, duck: drake, ram: ewe, stallion: mare

    cock: hen, gander: goose, stag: doe, tiger: tigress

    dog: bitch, lion: lioness

  • Others have the same form.