A Letter In The Times On Widowhood
On Friday in The Times, I had a letter published entitled The Widowed.
Sir, As a widower (letter, May 20), I feel that modern life may be making the word redundant.
Widowhood is no respecter of gender or sexual orientation, and all widowed are in the same possibly dark and unhappy place; so should we not just use the female form of the word?
After all lots of other words like actor, doctor and other professions are becoming applicable to all.
I wonder if there’s a language, where widower and widow are the same.
On a brief look using Google Translate, it would appear that in Finnish, Turkish and Welsh, the word is the same for both sexes.
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The Anonymous Widower 
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