Editing Talk:English neutral pronouns

== Themself incorrect? ==

Isn't ''themself'' incorrect? The ''them'' is plural, and ''self'' is singular. It seems it should either be ''themselves'' or ''theirself''. I think that ''themselves'' should be used because it's plural so consistent with all the other forms of this neutral pronoun: they, them, their, theirs.

: The word "themself" is in the Oxford English Dictionary, which reports that it has been in use since the 14th century: [https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/themself https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/themself] By the way, please sign your talk entries so conversations make sense later; see [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages Help on talk pages] to learn how. -[[User:Frameacloud|Frameacloud]] ([[User talk:Frameacloud|talk]]) 22:50, 27 June 2015 (CDT)

: In response to your concerns, I expanded the entry for "they" to include all four versions of its reflexive form (themself, theirself, theirselves, themselves) with dictionary sources cited to demonstrate that each form is commonly used. -[[User:Frameacloud|Frameacloud]] ([[User talk:Frameacloud|talk]]) 23:14, 27 June 2015 (CDT)

== English pronouns that don't meet notability requirements ==

This section is for English pronouns that don't cite any sources, are used by only one or two real people, or were used by few or no respondants to the Gender Census. The entries can be moved to the main article if they cite sources, and are used by many real people, and many respondants to the Gender Census.

===*e (splat pronouns)===

'''*e, h*, h*s, h*s, h*self''' (this was the exact set used in LambdaMOO).<ref>Klaus Beck, ''Computervermittelte Kommunikation im Internet.'' p. 157.</ref><ref>Laura Borràs Castanyer, ed. ''Textualidades electrónicas: Nuevos escenarios para la literatura.'' p. 158.</ref> Called "splat pronouns," because the asterisk symbol is also called a "splat," these all use an asterisk to represent ambiguity between "he" and "she."

'''Usage:'''

Some software and Internet resources in the 1990s used them informally as gender-neutral pronouns. The multi-user online environment LambdaMOO offered these "splat" pronouns in addition to "[[English neutral pronouns#E|Spivak]]" pronouns. In 2002, 10 out of 4061 people on LambdaMOO had chosen to use splat pronouns for themselves.<ref name="aetherluminarefs">https://web.archive.org/web/20070310125817/http://aetherlumina.com/gnp/references.html</ref> However, splat pronouns didn't make an appearance in the 2015 or 2016 Nonbinary Stats surveys.

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''*e'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''h*''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''h*s'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''h*s''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''h*self''.

'''On Pronoun Island:''' [http://pronoun.is/*e/h*/h*s/h*s/h*self http://pronoun.is/*e/h*/h*s/h*s/h*self

===Ae===

'''ae, aer, aer, aers, aerself'''. "In David Lindsay's ''Voyage to Arcturus'' (1920) a man from earth meets people on another planet who are neither man nor woman so he invents a new pronoun ''ae'' to refer to them."<ref>Suzanne Romaine, ''Communicating Gender.'' p. 343.</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''ae'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''aer''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''aer'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If my mobile phone runs out of power, ''ae'' lets me borrow ''aers''.
* '''Reflexive:'''  Each child feeds ''aerself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' No evidence of usage. Nonbinary Stats survey 2016 had only two respondents using it out of over 3,000.

===Ala===

'''ala, alum, alis, ?, ?'''. Created in 1989, "Michael Knab, of Goodwin, Knab and Co., Chicago, derives these from [Latin] ''al'', 'other' and feels they resemble the Hawaiian sex-neutral pronouns ''oia'', ''ia''."<ref name="d baron epicene">Dennis Baron, "The Epicene Pronouns: A chronology of the word that failed." [http://www.english.illinois.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/essays/epicene.htm http://www.english.illinois.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/essays/epicene.htm]</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''ala'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''alum''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''alis'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Some forms are unknown.

===Ble===

''See [[Pronouns#Racial pronouns|racial pronouns]]''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Because I think if a pronoun is notable and listed it should be listed under its name in full, and a "see also: racial pronouns" added.

===Bun===

''See [[Pronouns#Nounself pronouns|nounself pronouns]]''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Because I think if a pronoun is notable and listed it should be listed under its name in full, and a "see also: (section)" added.

===Ce===

'''ce, cir, cir, cirs, cirself'''. Created by Taz (Tumblr user jackalwedding) in 2014 (or earlier?),<ref name="askanonbinary credit">[http://askanonbinary.tumblr.com/credit Ask A Nonbinary's Credits page], captured March 2016.</ref> who went by these pronouns cirself.<ref>http://jackalwedding.tumblr.com/about+taz</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''ce'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''cir''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''cir'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''cirs''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''cirself''.

'''On Pronoun Island:''' [http://pronoun.is/ce/cir/cir/cirs/cirself http://pronoun.is/ce/cir/cir/cirs/cirself]

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability. In the Nonbinary Stats 2016 survey, it was entered once in over 3,000 participants.<ref name=NBGQ2016>[http://nonbinarystats.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results NB/GQ Survey 2016 - the worldwide results], March 2016.</ref>

===Che===

'''che, chim, chis, chis, chimself'''. A set of gender-neutral pronouns listed in Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage under [[Epicene|epicene]] pronouns.<ref name="aetherlumina feb 29 2012">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120229202924/http://aetherlumina.com/gnp/listing.html "GNP FAQ"], archive Feb 29 2012</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''che'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''chim''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''chis'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''chis''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''chimself''.

'''On Pronoun Island:''' [http://pronoun.is/che/chim/chis/chis/chimself http://pronoun.is/che/chim/chis/chis/chimself]

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability. No indication of its actual use in any literature, whether fiction or nonfiction, aside from its appearance in Merriam Webster. This leads one to suspect that it may have been a deliberately fictitious entry. Other dictionaries, such as the New Oxford American Dictionary, have been known to include fictitious entries as copyright traps. Regardless of its origins, it also doesn't seem popularly used among real nonbinary people. "Che" pronouns weren't entered in the 2015 or 2016 Nonbinary Stats surveys.

===Co===

'''co, co, co's (cos), co's, coself'''. Mary Orovan created these in 1970, derived from the Indo-European ''*ko'', as an inclusive alternative to "he or she."<ref name="d baron epicene">Dennis Baron, "The Epicene Pronouns: A chronology of the word that failed." [http://www.english.illinois.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/essays/epicene.htm http://www.english.illinois.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/essays/epicene.htm] {{dead link}}</ref><ref name="aetherlumina listing 1">https://web.archive.org/web/20070310125817/http://aetherlumina.com/gnp/references.html</ref> In the pages about inclusive pronouns in the book ''Words and Women'', authors Miller and Swift talk about this pronoun's origins, history, and contemporary usage:

<blockquote>"'Humanizing English,' an eight-page pamphlet first published in 1970, included [Mary] Orovan's proposed common gender pronoun ''co,'' which is now being used in everyday speech and writing by members of several alternative-life-style communities. Twin Oaks Community, a group of some sixty adults and children living in Louisa, Virginia, adopted Orovan's nonsexist grammatical form in 1972. The pronoun has since spread to other communities in Virginia and Missouri, is used in a book on radical therapy published in 1973 by Harper &amp; Row, and it routinely replaces 'he or she' or 'he/she' in the magazine ''Communities,''' which is addressed to cooperative-living groups across the country. Orovan derived ''co'' from the Indo-European root form ''ko,'' the common ancestor of both the masculine and feminine English pronouns. Co, with its suggestion of 'together,' is not used to replace either the masculine or feminine pronoun when applied to a specific individual, but only as an alternative to the unisex generic ''he.'' Twin Oaks' newsletter ''Leaves,'' for example, comments in an article on communal work undertaken by members, 'Vacations are indeed a burden for the remaining members, but everyone takes cos turn at carrying the burden.'"<ref>Casey Miller and Kate Swift, ''Words and Women.'' Pages 129-130.</ref></blockquote>

Today, "Co" is still used in some intentional communities, such as in the legal policies of Twin Oaks in Virginia, which provides information on the pronoun in its [http://www.twinoaks.org/community/visit/guide.html visitor guide] web page.

'''Use by people:''' 
In the 2018 Gender Census, only one respondent entered ''co/co/cos/cos/coself'' as cos favourite pronoun.<ref name="Census2018"/>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''co'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''co''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''co's'' hair grows long. (Or ''cos'' hair grows.)
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''co's''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''coself''.

'''On Pronoun Island:''' [http://pronoun.is/co/co/co's/co's/coself http://pronoun.is/co/co/co's/co's/coself]

===Em===

'''em, ?, ems, ems, ?'''. Created in 1977 by "Jeffrey J. Smith, [who] felt strongly enough about them to start the Em Institute and put out the Em Institute Newsletter under the pseudonym 'TIN-TAJL jefry'".<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''em'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' ?
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''ems'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''ems''.
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> Also, some forms missing.

===E===

Some variants of the E pronouns are less common.

====E (es)====
'''e, em, es (e's), (e's), (not recorded)'''. Created in 1890 by James Rogers of Crestview, Florida.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref><ref name="d baron epicene" /> In about 1977, version where all forms starts with capital letters was independently "created by psychologist Donald G. MacKay of the University of California at Los Angeles."<ref name="d baron epicene" /> In 1989, independently created by Victor J. Stone, Professor of Law.<ref name="d baron epicene" />

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''e'' (or ''E'') laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''em''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''es'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' (not recorded)
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''emself''.<ref>THE LAW: For the Record; E Has a Modest Proposal on Ungendered Personal Pronouns. (1989, August 25). New York Times. Retrieved from https://link-gale-com.lsproxy.austincc.edu/apps/doc/A175745500/OVIC?u=txshracd2487&sid=OVIC&xid=0ae5e2ed</ref>

===Et===

'''et, et, ets, ets, etself'''. Created by Aline Hoffman of Sarnia, Ontario, and published in ''Brave New Words'' (1979).<ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''et'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''et''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''ets'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''ets''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''etself''.

'''On Pronoun Island:''' [http://pronoun.is/et/et/ets/ets/etself http://pronoun.is/et/et/ets/ets/etself]

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Fawn===

''See [[Pronouns#Nounself pronouns|nounself pronouns]]''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Because I think if a pronoun is notable and listed it should be listed under its name in full, and a "see also: (section)" added.

===Ha===

'''ha, hem, hez, ?, ?'''. Coined in 1927, <ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref> and "attributed by H. L. Mencken to Lincoln King, of Primghar, Iowa."<ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''ha'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hem''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hez'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Some forms missing.

===He'er===

'''he'er, him'er, his'er, his'er's, his'er'self'''. An inclusive pronoun that was proposed in 1912 by Ella Flagg Young.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''he'er'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''him'er''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''his'er'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''his'er's''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''his'er'self''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Heesh===

Several sets of pronouns use "heesh" in the nominative form, the oldest from 1934. The idea is to combine "he" and "she" to create an inclusive pronoun. In alphabetical order:


'''heesh, ?, heesh's, heesh's, heeshself'''. Poul Anderson used these in a science fiction story, ''The Day of Their Return'' (1973) to refer to a species with three sexes.<ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''heesh'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' ?
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''heesh's'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''heesh's''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''heeshself''.


'''heesh, herm, hiser, hisers, hermself'''. Created in 1978 by Leonara Timm, in the ''International Journal of Women's Studies''.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref> Caution: herm is also an offensive word for an intersex person.

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''heesh'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''herm''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hiser'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''hisers''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''hermself''.


'''heesh, himer, hiser, ?, ?'''. Created in 1934.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''heesh'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''himer''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hiser'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?


'''heesh, hir, hir, ?, ?'''. This was the earliest recorded example of the gender-neutral pronoun "hir" on the Internet, which was in a science fiction fan newsgroup in 1981.<ref>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/fa.sf-lovers/HTiZ7_xKlHI/vEG69AjYi7kJ</ref><ref name="kip sexing the pronoun">[http://longstoryshortpier.com/2004/03/01/sexing_the_pronoun Kip Manley, "Sexing the pronoun."]</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''heesh'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hir''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hir'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> Many forms missing.

===Hesh===

Several sets of neologistic pronouns use "hesh" in the nominative form, in an attempt to combine "he" and "she." In alphabetical order:

'''hesh, himmer, hizzer, ?, ?'''. Created in 1927.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''hesh'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''himmer''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hizzer'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?


'''hesh, hiser, himer, himer, hermself'''. Created by feminist Jan Verley Archer in the 1975 issue of ''Media Report to Women''.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref> Caution: "herm" is also an offensive word for an intersex person.

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''hesh'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hiser''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''himer'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''himer''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''hermself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> Many forms missing.

===Heshe===

Several sets of neologistic pronouns use "heshe" in the nominative form, in an attempt to combine "he" and "she" to create an inclusive pronoun. Caution: "he-she" is also an offensive word for a transgender person. In alphabetical order:


'''heshe, hem, hes, ?, ?'''. Created in 1981, combining "he" and "she".<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''heshe'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hem''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hes'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?


'''heshe, himmer, hisher, ?, ?'''. Created in 1977.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''heshe'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''himmer''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hisher'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> Many forms missing.

===Hey===

'''hey, ?, heir, heirs, ?'''. Created in 1979 by Paul Encimer, with the intent to combine "he" and "their" to create an inclusive pronoun.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''hey'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' ?
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''heir'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''heirs''.
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> Forms missing.

===Hi===

Several sets of gender-neutral pronouns use "hi" in the nominative form. In alphabetical order, they are:


'''hi, hem, hes, ?, ?'''. Created in 1884 by Francis H. Williams.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''hi'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hem''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hes'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?


'''hi, hir, hir, hirs, hirself'''. According to Kip Manley, this set of pronouns was used in some science fiction in the 1980s. However, Manley wasn't able to give any examples.<ref name="kip sexing the pronoun"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''hi'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hir''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hir'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''hirs''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''hirself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> Forms missing.

===Hie===

'''hie, hie (?), hiez (?), ov hie, ?'''. In 1914, Mont Follick created this pronoun set, based on the pronunciation of "he" pronouns. Follick proposed that we reform the language so that these replace ''all'' third person singular pronouns in English.<ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''hie'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' ?
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' ?
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''ov hie''.
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> Forms missing.

===Ho===

'''ho, hom, hos, ?, homself'''. Derived from Latin ''homo,'' "human", and the prefix ''homo-'', "the same, equal, like." Created by Donald K. Darnell in a 1976 issue of ''Persons Communicating''. <ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''ho'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hom''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hos'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''homself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> Forms missing.

=== Hu ===
'''hu, hum, hus, hus, humself'''. Several times since the 1970s, pronoun neologisms have been created based on a "humanist" model using <u>hu</u>man as a base or root source for pronouns. These attempts have been about using nominally gender-inclusive or neutral source etymologies in order to create new pronouns with familiar and hence more easily understood spelling and pronunciation. This new humanist model takes these prior efforts and expands it to include options for pronouns, nouns, honorifics and more--and an (eventually) complete framework / model for neutral and inclusive English.

Pronunciation of ''hu'' is identical to the first part of ''hu''man (i.e., like the name Hugh), and hum follows the same model (as in, ''hum''an).

'''Forms:'''

*'''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''hu'' laughs.
*'''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hum''.
*'''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hus'' hair grows long.
*'''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''hus''.
*'''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''humself''.

'''On Posilicious:''' [https://posilicious.com/2020/08/27/gender-neutral-english-new-humanist-model/ Gender Neutral and Inclusive Humanist English]

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was entered only once in over 3,000 participants in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

=== Hy ===

'''hy, hym, hys, hys, hymself'''. Although rarely used nowadays, these pronouns date back to Middle English, in which they were an alternate spelling of he/him/his/his/himself.

A 1991 Usenet user wrote:
{{quote|I rather like Norman Cousin's proposal for a new personal pronoun of indeterminate or insignificant gender (he made this back in the '60s): ne/ner/nim (as in Not He/She, Not her, and Not Him). Of course, we could always extend the "womyn" paradigm and spell he, his, and him with a "y": hy, hys, and hym.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/g/rec.martial-arts/c/55Ckn-bd380/m/EIErfset5HMJ|last=Gombosi|first=Steve|date=11 November 1991|title=rec.martial-arts}}</ref>}}

In 1997, another Usenet user noted these pronouns were in use as masculine pronouns for some members of the furry community.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.furry/c/OKacXiwTEk0/m/v-NDSEzAeIwJ|date=14 August 1997|last=Koehler|first=Tobias|quote=There is hy/hys/hym (he-fluff), shy/hyr/hyr (she-fluff), han/per/per, yt/yts/yt, sie/hir/hir .... use what you like :) Of course you can just use `it' if you like to be genderneutral.|title=alt.fan.furry}}</ref>

'''Forms:'''

*'''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''hy'' laughs.
*'''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hym''.
*'''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hys'' hair grows long.
*'''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''hys''.
*'''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''hymself''.

'''On Pronoun Island:''' https://pronoun.is/hy/hym/hys/hys/hymself

===Id===

'''id, idre, ids, ids, idself'''. Used by Laurie Marks for characters of a genderless species in all three books of the Children of the Triad fantasy novel series: ''Delan the Mislaid'' (1989), ''The Moonbane Mage'' (1990), and ''Ara's Field'' (1991). Marks uses these pronouns for the title character and protagonist of the first book.<ref>''All our worlds: Diverse fantastic fiction.'' [http://doublediamond.net/aow http://doublediamond.net/aow]</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''id'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''idre''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''ids'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''ids''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''idself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Ip===

'''ip, ip, ips, ips, ipsself'''. Proposed in 1884 by Emma Carleton, probably derived from "it."<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''ip'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''ip''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''ips'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''ips''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''ipself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was entered only once in over 3,000 participants in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Ir===

'''ir, im, iro, iros, iroself'''. A set of English gender-neutral pronouns from 1888.<ref name="aetherlumina feb 29 2012">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120229202924/http://aetherlumina.com/gnp/listing.html "GNP FAQ"], archive Feb 29 2012</ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''ir'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''im''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''iro'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''iros''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''iroself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Kai===

'''kai, kaim, kais, kais, kaiself'''. A set of English gender-neutral pronouns created by novelist Janet Ganus for nonbinary characters, in 1998 or earlier.<ref name="aetherlumina feb 29 2012"></ref> Ganus also created a matching gender-neutral title, [[Gender neutral titles#Kaiet|Kaiet]], which is also a proper noun that serves the gender-neutral counterpart of "man" or "woman."

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''kai'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''kaim''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''kais'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''kais''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''kaiself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Le===

'''le, lem, les, les, lesself'''. A set of English gender-neutral pronouns proposed in 1884 by Edgar Alfred Stevens, borrowed from French.<ref name="aetherlumina feb 29 2012"></ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''le'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''lem''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''les'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''les''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''lesself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Na===

'''na, nan, nan, nan's, naself'''. June Arnold's story ''The Cook and the Carpenter'', 1973, used this set of pronouns exclusively, for all people. Arnold may have created the pronouns.<ref name="aetherluminarefs"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''na'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''nan''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''nan'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''nan's''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''naself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Notability citation missing - pronoun was not entered at all in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Re===

'''re, erm, rees, rees, ?'''. In 2002, atheist activist Mike Newdow proposed these to replace all use of "he" and "she" pronouns.<ref>Evelyn Nieves, "'Under God' iconoclast looks to next targets." ''The New York Times.'' July 1, 2002. [http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/national/01PLED.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/national/01PLED.html]</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''re'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''erm''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''rees'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''rees''.
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Set is incomplete.

===Se===

There are several similar sets that use "se" in the nominative form, the oldest of which was created in 1938. A list of its versions in alphabetical order:


'''se, ?, ?, ?, ?'''. Created in 1975.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''se'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' ?
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' ?
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?


'''se, hir, hir, hirs, hirself'''. In Richard Lupoff's short science fiction story "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" (1972), Lupoff used these pronouns for an entity comprised of a female extraterrestrial being inhabiting a dead male human body.<ref>Dog Friendly, "Origin of 'hir' - gender neutral pronoun? " February 7, 2007. ''Snopes forum.'' [http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=3032 http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=3032]</ref> In 1992, this set of gender-neutral pronouns was commonly used on the Internet in newsgroups such as alt.sex.bondage.<ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''se'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hir''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hir'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''hirs''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''hirself''.


'''se, sem, ses, ?, ?'''. Created in 1990.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref> Used for non-dyadic characters in Glenn Grant's story ''Memetic Drift'', "published in Interzone magazine #34, March/April 1990; reprinted in Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction, Tor hardcover, 1994, edited by the author and G. Hartwell."<ref name="aetherluminarefs"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''se'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''sem''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''ses'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?


'''se, sim, ser, ?, simself'''. Created in 1973 by William Cowan, of the Department of Linguistics, Carleton University.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''se'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''sim''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''ser'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''simself''.

'''On Pronoun Island:''' [http://pronoun.is/ser http://pronoun.is/ser]


'''se, sim, sis, ?, ?'''. Created in 1938 by Gregory Hynes.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''se'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''sim''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''sis'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Set is incomplete. None were entered in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Peh===

'''peh, pehm, ?, peh's, ?'''. Used by Jenn Manley Lee in a science fiction graphic novel, [http://www.dicebox.net/ Dicebox], as a gender non-specific pronoun, for when a person's gender is either irrelevant or nonbinary.<ref>"Organized by pronoun." ''Gender neutral pronoun blog.'' [https://genderneutralpronoun.wordpress.com/links/organized-by-pronoun https://genderneutralpronoun.wordpress.com/links/organized-by-pronoun/]</ref><ref>Kip Manley, "Kelly J. Cooper knows the score." [http://longstoryshortpier.com/2003/03/02/kelly_j_cooper_knows_the_score http://longstoryshortpier.com/2003/03/02/kelly_j_cooper_knows_the_score] (see second paragraph)</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''peh'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''pehm''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' ?
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''peh's''.
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''On Pronoun Island:''' [http://pronoun.is/peh http://pronoun.is/peh]

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Set is incomplete. None were entered in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Phe===

'''phe, per, pers, pers, perself'''. The phe/per pronoun set was created as an alternative to per/per, since ''per'' is already a word in English (meaning ''according to'').<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.glasswings.com.au/Storytronics/Odysseus/notes/pronouns.htm|title=Gender Free Pronouns|last=Phelps|first=Katherine|date=May 1998|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''phe'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''per''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''pers'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''pers''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''perself''.

'''Usage:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, no participants chose "phe/per" as an option.<ref name="Census2018"/> Entered only once in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Shey===

'''shey, shem, sheir, sheirs, sheirself'''. The same set was independently created (or perhaps only used) in 1973, 1979, and 1982.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref> The idea is to combine "she" and "they."

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''shey'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''shem''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''sheir'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''sheirs''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''sheirself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Not entered in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Shem===

'''shem, hem, hes, ?, ?'''. Created in 1974.<ref name="aetherlumina listing 2"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''shem'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hem''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hes'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Incomplete.

===Sie===

'''sie, hir, hir, hirs, hirself'''. Pronounced like either "she" and "her," or "see" and "hear." Derived from German pronouns for "she" and "they." <ref name="aetherlumina feb 29 2012"></ref> Since the early 1990s, this set has been widely used on the Internet for gender-neutral language when speaking of no specific person, for nonbinary gender characters, and by nonbinary gender people themselves. Use in fiction: Elizabeth Bear used these pronouns in a fantasy novel, ''Dust.''<ref>''All our worlds: Diverse fantastic fiction.'' [http://doublediamond.net/aow http://doublediamond.net/aow]</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''sie'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hir''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hir'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''hirs''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''hirself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Entered only once in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Splat===

''See [[Pronouns#*E|*E]]''.

===Tey===

'''tey, tem, ter, ters, temself'''. A set of gender-neutral pronouns, proposed by feminists Casey Miller and Kate Swift in the 1971 December issue of ''Ms'' in earnest as a strategy to avoid "pronoun abuse" (meaning the inappropriate use of male pronouns when it would make more sense to include women as well), as one of many strategies to reduce sexist language. Later, they advocated instead for more widespread use of "[[Pronouns#He or she|he or she]]" for that purpose.<ref>Elizabeth Isele, "Casey Miller and Kate Swift: Women Who Dared To Disturb the Lexicon." ''Women in Literature and Life Assembly,'' Vol. 3, Fall 1994. [http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall94/h2-isele.html]</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''tey'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''tem''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''ter'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''ters''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''temself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Entered only once in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===The===

''See [[Pronouns#&THORN;e|&thorn;e]] or [[Pronouns#&#540;e|3e]].''

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Not entered in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===V===

'''v, v, v's, v's, ?'''. In 2011, trans writer, singer, and artist [[Mx]] [[Justin Vivian Bond]] created this set of pronouns for people to use in reference to Bond. Bond created v's own set of pronouns, because v wasn't satisfied with any other gender-neutral pronouns that v had heard of. Bond wrote, "So what I’ve come up with is 'v'. Since my name is Justin Vivian Bond and since Vivian begins with a V and visually a V is two even sides which meet in the middle I would like v to be my pronoun."<ref>Justin Vivian Bond, "Bio." [http://justinbond.com/?page_id=323 http://justinbond.com/?page_id=323]</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''v'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug 'v''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''v's'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''v's''.
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Incomplete. Entered only once in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Xie===

'''xie, ?, hir, hirs, ?'''. Sarka-Jonae Miller made a Change.org petition asking for Dictionary.com to include these as gender-neutral pronouns, saying these are "widely used by LGBT community members and others who wish to refer to individuals as a person instead of as a gender." The petition didn't give all the forms of these pronouns.<ref>Sarka-Jonae Miller, "Show respect to all people by adding gender neutral pronouns to dictionaries." [https://www.change.org/p/dictionary-com-show-respect-to-all-people-by-adding-gender-neutral-pronouns-to-dictionaries https://www.change.org/p/dictionary-com-show-respect-to-all-people-by-adding-gender-neutral-pronouns-to-dictionaries]</ref> Presumably these are a spelling variant of "[[Pronouns#Xe|xe]], hir" or "[[Pronouns#Ze|ze]], hir" pronouns.

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''xie'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' ?
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hir'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''xirs''.
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Incomplete. Entered only once in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Zey===

'''zey/zem/zeir''' is a pronoun set following the pattern of ''they/them/theirs'', but with the letter Z in place of TH.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/employees-and-payroll/new-employee-set-up-for-getting-his-paystub-emailed/00/283925|author=dolphinnetwork|date=December 27, 2019|title=Comment on "New employee set up for getting his paystub emailed"|quote=I personally think it's time for English to have a singular non-gendered pronoun, and suggest contracts and manuals use "Zey/Zem/Zeir"  (Zey will need to sign up to receive paystubs zeirself, but if no email was sent to zem automatically the payroll accountant can send it to zem.)}}</ref><ref>[https://www.reddit.com/user/Earl_The_Red/ Reddit profile of u/Earl_The_Red showing use of zey/zem/zeir pronouns]</ref>

'''Use for real nonbinary people:'''
*Writer and advocate [[Chris Paige]] uses zey/zem/zeir in addition to they/them/their. The "zey" pronoun set was suggested by zeir daughter to avoid singular/plural confusion.<ref name="BibleBash">{{Cite web |title=Enuchs and Jesus and Pronouns, Oh My! Mx Chris Paige -- Matthew 19 |author1=Hooper, Liam |author2=Toscano, Peterson |work=The Bible Bash Podcast |date=September 28, 2019 |access-date=July 14, 2020 |url= https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/climate-stew/e/64218290}}</ref>

===Zhe===

'''zhe, zhim, zher, zhers, zhimself''' or '''zherself'''. This pronoun set was proposed in November 2000 (or possibly earlier) by economist Fred E. Foldvary. Dr. Foldvary wrote:<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001121014600/http://www.progress.org/fold162.htm|url=http://www.progress.org/fold162.htm |last=Foldvary|first=Fred E.|title=Zhe, zher, zhim|work=The Progress Report|archive-date=21 November 2000}}</ref>

{{quote|The English language needs new pronouns to refer to people in a gender-neutral way. I offer the words zhe, zher, and zhim, where the "zh" is pronounced as in the second "g" of garage or the "z" in azure. "Zhe" means either he or she for the subject of a sentence. "Zher" is the possessive "him" or "her." "Zhim" is the accusative or object of a sentence, meaning either "him" or "her."

For example: "Zhe was walking zher dog down the street and then gave zhim a treat." The pronoun "one" would not do here: "One was walking one's dog down the street and then gave one a treat" does not work. The use of the plural would make it sound like more than one person and more than one dog. For gender-neutral pronouns, new words are needed, and zhe, zher, zhim fits the need.}}

Dr. Foldvary did not specify a reflexive form of the pronoun, but various online pronoun lists give the reflexive as "zhimself" or "zherself".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wou.edu/wp/safezone/pronouns/|title=Pronouns|work=Western Oregon University Safe Zone}}</ref><ref name="SmithM2019">{{Cite web |title=LGBTQIA Patients: Initiating a Positive Healthcare Experience with Open Lines of Communication |author=Smith, Margaret |work=nursingcenter.com |date=6 February 2019 |access-date=6 October 2020 |url= https://www.nursingcenter.com/ncblog/february-2019/lgbtqia-patients-initiating-a-positive-healthcare}}</ref>

'''Use in fiction:'''
* Zhe/zher pronouns were sometimes used for space pirate Eleodie Maracavanya in the ''Star Wars: Aftermath'' novels. Eleodie is the first canonly nonbinary character in the ''Star Wars'' universe.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=ChuckWendig| number=1007345075343552513|title=That would be the gender-neutral / non-binary pronoun used by human space pirate Eleodie Maracavanya.|date=14 June 2018}}</ref><ref name="Eleodie">{{Cite web |title=Eleodie Maracavanya |author= |work=Wookieepedia |date= |access-date=6 October 2020 |url= https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Eleodie_Maracavanya}}</ref>
* In season 11, episode 15 of the TV show ''Supernatural'', a character says "Well it's kinda every demon for him/her/zhimself."<ref name="supe_Quee">{{Cite web |title=Queer and Gender Diverse Characters |author= |work=supernaturalwiki.com |date= |access-date=6 October 2020 |url= http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/Queer_and_Gender_Diverse_Characters}}</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''zhe'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''zhim''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''zher'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''zhers''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''zhimself''. (or ''zherself'')

'''On Pronoun Island:''' https://pronoun.is/zhe/zhim/zher/zhers/zhimself, https://pronoun.is/zhe/zhim/zher/zhers/zherself

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Not entered in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===Ze===

'''ze, em, zeir, zeirs, zeirself'''. Singer songwriter Jennifer Moore (memevector) invented these "memevector pronouns" in 2002. They are meant to sound similar to how other pronouns are pronounced in casual conversation. They are meant to be gender-free pronouns.<ref>"Pronouns." ''Footnotes.'' 2003. Retrieved 2007. [http://web.archive.org/web/20090414130833/http://footnotes.jinkies.org.uk/pronouns.html http://web.archive.org/web/20090414130833/http://footnotes.jinkies.org.uk/pronouns.html]</ref><ref>Jennifer Moore (memevector), "Pronouns." February 20, 2002. ''Livejournal.'' Blog post. [http://memevector.livejournal.com/1089.html http://memevector.livejournal.com/1089.html]</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''ze'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''em''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''zeir'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''zeirs''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''zeirself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Not entered in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

-

'''ze, mer, mzer, zers, zemself'''. Created earlier than 1997. Proposed by Richard E. Creel, a professor teaching philosophy of religion courses, to refer a person of any gender, and specifically to God. This was meant to help scholars think of God as neither male nor female. Creel said the M in "mer" comes from that in "him."<ref>In Richard E. Creel, “Ze, zer, mer,” ''APA Newsletters'' 97: 1 (Fall 1997)</ref>.

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''ze'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''mer''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''mzer'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''zers''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''zemself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Not entered in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

-

'''ze, zim, zees, zees, zeeself'''. Created in 1972 by Steven Polgar of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, explaining that it is based on the German pronoun [[Pronouns#Sie|sie]]. This was printed in the ''Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association.''<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120229202924/http:/aetherlumina.com/gnp/listing.html]</ref><ref name="d baron epicene"></ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''ze'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''zim''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''zees'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''zees''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''zeeself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Not entered in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===&THORN;e===

'''&thorn;e, &thorn;im, &thorn;ir, &thorn;irs, ?'''. A non-standard set of gender-neutral pronouns created by John Newmeyer, Ph.D, of San Francisco, and printed in ''The People's Almanac #2'' (1978). Newmeyer also created a proper noun for a person whose gender isn't specified, as a counterpart to the nouns "man" and "woman:" ''&thorn;ane,'' or "thane."<ref name="d baron epicene"></ref> These use the Old English letter  &thorn;, called "thorn," which represents an unvoiced "th" sound, as in the English word "thin." "Thane" is derived from an English word for a specific kind of land-owner, who historically would have been only male.

'''In fiction:''' In Melissa Scott's science fiction novel ''Shadow Man'' (1995), this is one of the pronouns used for a specific intersex sex/gender.<ref>Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon, eds. ''Edging Into The Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation.'' p. 110.</ref>

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''&thorn;e'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''&thorn;im''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''&thorn;ir'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''&thorn;irs''.
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Incomplete. Not entered in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===&#540;e===

'''3e, 3im, 3er, 3ers, 3imself'''. In Melissa Scott's science fiction novel ''Shadow Man'' (1995), intersex conditions have become so common that society categorizes people into five sexes (and five corresponding genders), each with their own set of pronouns.<ref>Alex Dally MacFarlane, "Post-binary gender in SF: Shadow Man by Melissa Scott." April 8, 2014. ''Tor.'' [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/04/post-binary-gender-in-sf-shadow-man-by-melissa-scott http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/04/post-binary-gender-in-sf-shadow-man-by-melissa-scott]</ref> Scott says the novel's concept is inspired by feminist Anne Fausto-Sterling's plea for recognition of the existence of intersexuality, "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough" (1993).<ref>Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon, eds. ''Edging Into The Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation.'' p. 109.</ref> In Scott's novel, the people use 3e pronouns for those of the "herm" gender. Although the first consonant looks similar to a 3, and may be printed as such, it is a letter from Middle English called "yogh," and Scott meant it to be pronounced like a Z.<ref>Patricia Melzer, ''Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought.'' University of Texas, 2010. Unpaged.</ref> Compare similar "[[Pronouns#Ze|ze]], zim" pronouns.

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''3e'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''3im''.
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''3er'' hair grows long.
* '''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''3ers''.
* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''3imself''.

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Not entered in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===&ETH;e===

'''&eth;e, ?, ?, ?, ?'''. In Melissa Scott's science fiction novel ''Shadow Man'' (1995), this is one of the pronouns used for a specific intersex sex which, in that culture, has its own corresponding gender.<ref>Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon, eds. ''Edging Into The Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation.'' p. 110.</ref><ref>Alex Dally MacFarlane, "Post-Binary Gender in SF: ExcitoTech and Non-Binary Pronouns." June 3, 2014. ''Tor.'' [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/06/post-binary-gender-in-sf-excitotech-and-non-binary-pronouns http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/06/post-binary-gender-in-sf-excitotech-and-non-binary-pronouns]</ref> This pronoun uses an Old English letter named "eth," pronounced like the "th." Compare similar [[Pronouns#&THORN;e|&thorn;e]] pronouns.

'''Forms:'''
* '''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''&eth;e'' laughs.
* '''Accusative:''' ?
* '''Pronominal possessive:''' ?
* '''Predicative possessive:''' ?
* '''Reflexive:''' ?

'''Why this was moved to the talk page:''' Incomplete. Not entered in the Nonbinary Stats survey in 2016.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref>

===References===
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== case forms ==

Could detail please be provided on the case forms of all of these words?  A chart with both possesives, the subject and object, as well as the reflexive forms woud be very nice.

:Thanks for the feedback! Most (if not all) pronouns have example sentences with the pronoun used in all cases (and highlighted in Italics). If you want the form only, without examples, feel free to hop on the [https://data.nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Main_Page NBDb] (Nonbinary Database) and look up any pronoun, it contains short data on many of them, including cases.--[[User:Ondo|Ondo]] ([[User talk:Ondo|talk]]) 20:56, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

== potential "see also" links ==

https://www.hrc.org/resources/understanding-neopronouns - good initial resource for people

https://homosaurus.org/v2/neopronouns - though we have the nbdb? pretty sure we've talked to this site about collabs toy [[User:Amazingakita|Amazingakita]] ([[User talk:Amazingakita|talk]]) 22:43, 7 August 2022 (UTC)