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Previous pronoun debates revolved around the non-inclusivity of using “he” as a generic pronoun (as in the Bible: “He that is without sin among you, let him be the first to cast a stone ...
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 "heer" being added to the Funk & Wagnalls dictionary in 1913. [16]
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.
Third-person pronouns also retained a distinction between accusative and dative forms, but that was gradually lost: the masculine hine was replaced by him south of the Thames by the early 14th century, and the neuter dative him was ousted by it in most dialects by the 15th. [18] The following table shows some of the various Middle English pronouns.
Some examples of neopronouns include “xe, xem, xyr,” “ze, zir, zie” and “fae, faer.” Earlier this month, “Jeopardy!” again made headlines when a question that combined geography ...
I refer to myself with they / them or xe / xem pronouns. I use Mx. as both my courtesy title and my honorific . (I pronounce it like "mix", but I've heard "em-ex" too and think that also sounds nice.)
A minority of editors may avoid third-person pronouns entirely when referring to other editors, or may refer to other editors using less common gender-neutral pronouns like xe/xem. These approaches are generally not perceived as misgendering, since pronoun sets like they/them and xe/xem can refer to unknown or unspecified gender, not just to ...
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