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Fun fact; English used to have three genders --masculine, feminine and neuter-- like most of the other Germanic languages, but they got stripped out over the years for historical reasons having to do with the Danelaw and the Norman conquest and are gone by the time of filthy old Chaucer.
That is a very fun fact.
Right?
I feel like it's something we might want to run with, like bring back gendered English!
English also used to be much more case-based as well. We still do the same things in modern English, but we don't do it with grammar and instead use syntax which isn't as cool.