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| 1 | key | description | normative | pronoun_subject | pronoun_object | possessive_determiner | possessive_pronoun | reflexive | plural | pluralHonorific | pronounceable | history | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | they,they/them | Singular “they” | TRUE | they | them | their | theirs | themselves | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | Singular “they” has been used in English to describe an unspecified person since the late 1300s (it's even older than singular “you”!). Nowadays, it's the most popular choice among people who prefer gender neutral forms. It starts being {https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbinary-they=accepted by dictionaries} too. | billions,sheRa,comedyOfErrors,deGrassiNext |
| 3 | it,it/its | Personal “it” | TRUE | it | it | its | its | itself | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | Although “it” is normally used for objects, not people, some actually do like being called that way. If someone wants you to call it “it”, it's not offensive – it's actually respectful. | arcaIs |
| 4 | ve,ve/ver | Neopronoun “ve/ver” | FALSE | ve|vi | ver|vəɹ | vis|viz | vers|vəɹz | verself|vəɹsɛlf | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | Used eg. by Greg Egan in <em>Distress</em> (1995) and <em>Diaspora</em> (1998), and by Keri Hulme in <em>The Bone People</em> (1984). | distress,steelBreeze |
| 5 | ey,ey/em | Elverson pronouns | FALSE | ey|eɪ | em|ɛm | eir|ɛɹ | eirs|ɛɹz | emself|ɛmsɛlf | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | {https://research.cristanwilliams.com/2012/02/24/1975-transgender-cross-gender/=Coined by Christine M. Elverson} in 1975 for a contest to create an alternative to the singular {/they=they}. Those forms are created by dropping “th” from “they”. | cageZeus |
| 6 | per,per/per | Person pronouns | FALSE | per|pəɹ | per|pəɹ | per|pəɹ | pers|pəɹz | perself|pəɹsɛlf | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | Coined by John Clark in an issue of the <em>Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association</em> in 1972, derived from the word “person”. | womanOn |
| 7 | e/em/eir | Spivak pronouns | FALSE | e|i | em|ɛm | eir|ɛɹ | eirs|ɛɹz | emself|ɛmsɛlf | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | Coined by Michael Spivak in 1990 for his manual <em>The Joy of TeX</em> to avoid gendering people in the examples. | theJoy |
| 8 | ze/hir | Neopronoun “ze/hir” | FALSE | ze | hir | hir | hirs | hirself | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | differentlyAnimated,prefaceTo,buckingThe |