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A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. [1] Some languages, such as Slavic, with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or all nouns have a value for this grammatical category.
It should be acknowledged that the notion of using "Xe" has been proposed before as one of many Gender-specific and gender-neutral pronouns but with different details. But so long as these schemes remain out of widespread use, we should feel free to reinvent them, and especially, to invent them with an eye toward delivering additional desirable ...
"Ze" as a gender-neutral English pronoun dates back to at least 1864. [ 1 ] [ 14 ] In 1911, an insurance broker named Fred Pond invented the pronoun set "he'er, his'er and him'er", which the superintendent of the Chicago public-school system proposed for adoption by the school system in 1912, sparking a national debate in the US, [ 15 ] with ...
I also noted other spellings, since I wasn't familiar with the xe/xyr/xem set, but had usually seen the xe/xer/xim one, as in this discussion. -- Ghavral 01:42, 30 May 2006 (UTC) [ reply ] "David knew it was she all along" is not right, it should be "David knew it was her all along" -- Macarion 01:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC) [ reply ]
Apart from pronouns, gender can be marked in personal names and certain titles. [27] Many words in modern English refer specifically to people or animals of a particular sex. [28] An example of an English word that has retained gender-specific spellings is the noun-form of blond/blonde, with the former being masculine and the latter being ...
X-gender (Japanese: Xジェンダー, romanized: x-jendā) is a third-gender that differs from M, for male, or F, for female. [1] [2] [3] The term X-gender came into use during the later 1990s, popularized by queer organizations in Kansai, especially in Osaka and Kyoto.
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The term may be used as "an umbrella term, encompassing several gender identities, including intergender, agender, xenogender, genderfluid, and demigender." [ 22 ] Some non-binary identities are inclusive , because two or more genders are referenced, such as androgyne/androgynous, intergender, bigender, trigender, polygender, and pangender.