Talk:Glossary of English gender and sex terminology: Difference between revisions

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* '''yo'''. In addition to an interjection and greeting, this is a gender-neutral pronoun in a dialect of African-American Vernacular English.<ref>Rebecca Hersher, "'Yo' said what?" April 24, 2013. ''NPR: Code Switch''. [http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/04/25/178788893/yo-said-what]</ref>
* '''yo'''. In addition to an interjection and greeting, this is a gender-neutral pronoun in a dialect of African-American Vernacular English.<ref>Rebecca Hersher, "'Yo' said what?" April 24, 2013. ''NPR: Code Switch''. [http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/04/25/178788893/yo-said-what]</ref>
==Z==
* '''[[Pronouns#Zhe|zhe]], zhim, zher, zhers, ?.''' A set of gender-neutral pronouns.
* '''[[Pronouns#Zie|zie]]'''. Several sets of gender-neutral pronouns use "zie" in the nominative form.


==Special and foreign characters==
==Special and foreign characters==
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* '''&amp;thorn;ane,''' or "thane." Created by John Newmeyer in 1978, a proper noun for a person whose gender isn't specified, as a counterpart to the nouns "man" and "woman."<ref>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> "Thane" is derived from an English word for a specific kind of land-owner, who historically would have been only male.
* '''&amp;thorn;ane,''' or "thane." Created by John Newmeyer in 1978, a proper noun for a person whose gender isn't specified, as a counterpart to the nouns "man" and "woman."<ref>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> "Thane" is derived from an English word for a specific kind of land-owner, who historically would have been only male.
* '''[[Pronouns#&amp;THORN;e|&amp;thorn;e]], &amp;thorn;im, &amp;thorn;ir, &amp;thorn;irs, ?'''. A non-standard set of gender-neutral pronouns created by John Newmeyer in 1978.<ref>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> These use the Old English letter  &amp;thorn;, called "thorn," which represents an unvoiced "th" sound, as in the English word "thin."
* '''[[Pronouns#&amp;THORN;e|&amp;thorn;e]], &amp;thorn;im, &amp;thorn;ir, &amp;thorn;irs, ?'''. A non-standard set of gender-neutral pronouns created by John Newmeyer in 1978.<ref>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> These use the Old English letter  &amp;thorn;, called "thorn," which represents an unvoiced "th" sound, as in the English word "thin."
* '''[[Pronouns#Zhe|zhe]], zhim, zher, zhers, ?.''' A set of gender-neutral pronouns.
* '''[[Pronouns#Zie|zie]]'''. Several sets of gender-neutral pronouns use "zie" in the nominative form.
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