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For questions about the usage, role, history, and lack of grammatical gender in English.

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Is the "female" in "female cousin" redundant here?

By order of appearance, it's the word "her" that is redundant, but English doesn't have an appropriate gender-neutral alternative. That means that, strictly speaking, "female" provides information th …
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