[Avodah] Legions

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

It seems to me that the traditional attitude is that foreign words have
no gender, but since Hebrew grammar requires one each writer is free to
assign them one as he pleases, with no expectation of consistency.  Thus
the rishonim felt free to wrote of "tallethoth" or "tallethim" as they
liked, because "talleth" (with a tzere, not the chirik that modern Hebrew
has given it) is inherently genderless.  Similarly with "ligyon".