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[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The i-pronunciation is commonplace enough that some feminists who want to avoid the word “men” spell “women” as “wimmin”, i.e. the phonetic spelling.

[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Interesting. I associate the "wimmin" spelling with Terry Pratchett's writing, where it's used in the speech of lower/middle-class men, implying casual/uninformed objectification.