Comments by "Delibro" (@Delibro) on "Weird plurals in English: Men, geese, sheep, knives and many more" video.

@SiriusMined It changed its connotation in the last century - around 1940 and before it was a proper word like wife in English, but often also for women in general or non nobility women. Old people nowadays sometimes use this word with this meaning, but the man being of "higher rank" than a woman is involved. And nowadays young people will only use Weib to more or less talk down on a woman. The modern word for woman is "Frau" and the word for wife is also "Frau" or "meine Frau" ("my woman"). "weiblich" and "Weiblichkeit" did kept their neutral or positive meaning.
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@b.a.erlebacher1139 Never encountered the word female being used derogatory. But English isn't my first language, maybe that's why.
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@b.a.erlebacher1139 In German nowadays "Weib" is used nearly exclusively on a private basis, not in a speech or a formal document. Old people would use it sometimes with no bad intention, cus 70 years ago it just was common sense that men are superiour. Medium and younger people would simply use it as a swearword.
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@Magenta McGonigle No? It just doesn't have fixed plural rules. (Edit: sry, wrong adressee)
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@hanswurst2490 I don't agree with all of what you wrote. So tell me the rule of English spelling.
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@hanswurst2490 I didn't said that I expect anything.
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@w.reidripley1968 I meant that most vowels can sound like many other vowels in English, some consonants have weird sounding too. In many other languages (e.g. Finnish, Spain, Italian, Portuguese) that is not the case. This was a reply to Hans who sounded to me like only German has weird rules.
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