physics / physics

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The appropriate ways to refer to women specialists in these areas are chemistry, physics y musicand the same can be applied to other cases like The botanic, the grammar o mechanics. The fact that the feminine of these professions coincides with the noun used for that discipline or art does not make it incorrect, as explained the new grammar of the Spanish language.

Actually, this ambiguity is common in Spanish, since a word can have several meanings, all of them valid: physicist it can be both the specialist in physics and the exterior of a person; fruit platter it is the person who sells fruit and the object that contains it; milkmaid it is a vessel in which milk is transported, but also a woman who sells it…

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