What is your Favorite Gender Neutral Pronouns?

Janesville, Wisconsin
November 12, 2006 2:25pm CST
I was curious what everyone's Favorite Gender Neutral Pronouns are.. and for those who say no such thing.. well they do not teach them, because there are so many sets, no one has agreed upon which set to use.... My Favorites are Sie and Hir. Em and Eir.. Ze and Zir... To me they come naturally.. And Sie and Shim... Here are some links I compiled on them... I did not write any of these pages, just found them in my searches: Ze, Zer, Mir http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/archive/newsletters/v97n1/teaching/ze.asp Gender Neutral Technical Writing http://www.jeanweber.com/howto/genderneutral.htm Gender Neutral Pronouns for English http://www.progress.org/archive/fold162.htm Hajis writings Gender Neutral Pronouns http://www.kamps.org/haje/gender-neutral-pronouns/ Gender Neutral Language Information http://www.answers.com/topic/gender-neutral-language-in-english Gender Neutral Pronoun Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun Every writer should choose his pronouns carefully http://www.grammarmudge.cityslide.com/articles/article/307084/9286.htm The Epicene Pronouns https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/debaron/www/essays/epicene.htm Epicene Pronouns American Heritage Dictionary http://www.aol.bartleby.com/64/C005/004.html I thought I would post this as it has not seem to be covered.
2 responses
• Sri Lanka
6 Jan 07
The only word that I know very well belong to the above category is the word "Ms." which we use as title before a name. During my school days we did not even use the word "Chirperson". If the Chairman of a commitee is a woman we used to address them as "Madam Chairman".
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• Janesville, Wisconsin
7 Jan 07
I did not think of Ms. as being gender neutral interesting. The person verses man thing messes with my mind alot.. as well, as I always felt man refered to human when would be either man or woman.. Unless we now have Humans and Huwomans! giggles. It sure is interest how things are progressing on the gender end. English language I feel needs to add other standards gender neutral pronouns. Then when people talk about my cat sterling they do not say he, she shehe, heshe. shim, him .. it... Him stuttering 100 miles an hour not sure what to call my boy looking cat, who managed to have kittens somehow. :) ... He is also known to adopt and nurse the other cats kittens so we think this is where they are coming from now. - DNatureofDTrain
• United States
23 Dec 06
I guess hir and hym hy are mine those I see the most and syr is used alot too .
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