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Originally Posted by LazyScot
I would never associate "common" with "women". I think it may be a Pavlovian association.
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Since there are more women in the world than men, they are therefore more common, as in "of frequent occurance" (re. the American College Dictionary) than are men. Although I admit that they are not common, as in "of mediorcre or inferior quality (re. same source).
Unfortunatly the common English language can sometimes be uncommonly ambiguous.
