Your puzzle is also discussed in
Rachel Giora's "On our mind: Salience, context, and figurative language" (Oxford University Press)
Also, just like Mr. Speranza said about French, in Russian, for
example, surgeon is grammatically masculine (the feminine counterpart
doesn't (yet) exist in the language)
Andre
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