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Inanimate objects do not have gender, except possibly ships.

In the case of the Sun it seemed NASA checked and it prefers neutral
pronouns https://www.thebeaverton.com/2017/06/nasa-finally-answers-big-question-gender-sun/

Bill

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 08:31, David C  wrote:
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> In English speaking countries  does the sun still have a gender or has he 
been neutered by political  correctness?
>
> The ony use of gender I can find quickly is this quote from Cotter:
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> "The R.A. of the sun is 00 hr  00 min  00 sec when he is at the First Point 
of Airies at the time of the spring equinox."
>
> Which raises another issue  -   the Spring equinox will be in three months 
time in September but I suspect that that is not what Cotter meant!
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