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He had three genders in Old English, but in Middle English, the neuter and feminine genders split off. Today, he is the only masculine pronoun in English. In the 18th century, it was suggested as a gender-neutral pronoun, and was thereafter often prescribed in manuals of style and school textbooks until the 1960s.
He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic hāʾ ه , Aramaic hē 𐡄, Hebrew hē ה , Phoenician hē 𐤄, and Syriac hē ܗ. Its sound value is the voiceless glottal fricative ( [h] ).
After he lost his job, my father set up a small grocer's shop. (my father is the antecedent of he, although it comes after the pronoun) We invited Mary and Tom. He came but she didn't. (Mary is the antecedent of she, and Tom of he) I loved those bright orange socks. Can you lend them to me? (those bright orange socks is the antecedent of them)
The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, who is afraid of other people in society, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)."
He thought, for a tick, about the long odds to that scorer’s table. “I know all my people back home are locked in and sitting around with family watching the game and that means a lot to me ...
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According to the Hebrew Bible, in the encounter of the burning bush (Exodus 3:14), Moses asks what he is to say to the Israelites when they ask what gods have sent him to them, and YHWH replies, "I am who I am", adding, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I am has sent me to you. ' " [4] Despite this exchange, the Israelites are never written to have asked Moses for the name of God. [13]
He who hesitates is lost; He who laughs last laughs longest; He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword; He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire – Laozi, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – c. 531 BC) [10] He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man; He who pays the piper calls the tune