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An interesting question I've often wondered about is, how does the gender of new nouns get decided?

For example, the word 'bong' is a fairly new word in the language.

In German, I believe it's 'blueber' (no umlaut in my char set, first e should be omitted, and u should have umlaut).

Who decides whether it's 'die blueber', 'der blueber', or 'das blueber'?

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