2021-04-06 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – A – actor & actress

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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.