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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.
The pronunciation of "xe" is intended to be a voiceless velar fricative, similar to "ge" in Spanish wikt:gerente.As this is not a standard English sound there should be much tolerance for variation, including a "kse" as "x" would normally be pronounced.
"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 ]
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A set of four badges, created by the organizers of the XOXO art and technology festival in Portland, Oregon. Preferred gender pronouns (also called personal gender pronouns, often abbreviated as PGP [1]) are the set of pronouns (in English, third-person pronouns) that an individual wants others to use to reflect that person's own gender identity.
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French personal pronouns (analogous to English I, you, he/she, we, and they) reflect the person and number of their referent, and in the case of the third person, its gender as well (much like the English distinction between him and her, except that French lacks an inanimate third person pronoun it or a gender neutral they and thus draws this distinction among all third person nouns, singular ...