2021-04-06
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – A – actor & actress
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง actor = ‘AK-ter’
ออกเสียง actress = ‘AK-tris’
Collins English Dictionary
USAGE FOR Actor
Usage: The term actor is almost universally used nowadays
to refer to people of either gender who act.
Collins English Dictionary
USAGE FOR Actress
Use of the word actress to refer toa female who acts
is old-fashioned.
The modern gender-neutralform is actor
Dictionary of Problem Words in English
actor & actress
The suffix -ess is used to form distinctivelyfeminine nouns
such as hostess, lioness, duchess, and heiress.
Even beforethe Women’s Lib movement,
it use was considered offensive
in such wordsas Jewess, Negress, and poetess,
because emphasis on sex seemed irrelevant and possibly prejudicial.
With an actress, however, femininity is essential to her art,
so that the term is appropriate and useful.
An actor, of course, is a male performer.
