Its just so unfortunate the word is 'sewer'
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Which is why the occupation was always 'seamstress'
aug 31, 2025, 8:42 pm • 7 0 • view
I was thinking 'seamster' would be a good twin term and to maintain 'seamstress' (or else just call everyone one or the other)
aug 31, 2025, 9:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Or stitchition with equal sibilence
aug 31, 2025, 9:10 pm • 2 0 • view
that needs to happen.
aug 31, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Gets me every single time. I automatically read it wrong.
sep 1, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Sewist is pretty commonly used in the US sewing community.
sep 1, 2025, 7:20 am • 0 0 • view
On the show they say “sewist”
aug 31, 2025, 8:46 pm • 3 0 • view
"Privatising water makes no sense - it's a natural monopoly which doesn't allow for competition" "Ah, but that's not strictly true, as our new TV programme shows"
sep 1, 2025, 9:29 am • 0 0 • view
Stitcher?
aug 31, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Seamstress, Tailor, Seamster, Sempster, Stitcher: any of these are preferable. I'm not a fan of "Sewist," because "sew" is a verb, not a noun.
sep 1, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
This is a heteronym as I learnt this summer.
aug 31, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm going with the aging champ, the Cloaca Maxima.
sep 1, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
It's Rome's Cloaca Maxima versus London's Bazalgette Embankment in the grand final.
aug 31, 2025, 8:42 pm • 8 0 • view
I know!
aug 31, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view