English neutral pronouns: Difference between revisions
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===Zie=== | ===Zie=== | ||
'''zie, zir (zim), zir, zirs, zirself'''. (Compare the most similar pronoun set, "ze, zir", and other similar pronouns, "xe" and "zhe".) The Gender-Neutral Pronoun FAQ says this set (with the "zie" spelling, and accusative "zir") was widely used on the Internet at the time but doesn't know when it was created.<ref> | '''zie, zir (zim), zir, zirs, zirself'''. (Compare the most similar pronoun set, "ze, zir", and other similar pronouns, "xe" and "zhe".) The Gender-Neutral Pronoun FAQ says this set (with the "zie" spelling, and accusative "zir") was widely used on the Internet at the time but doesn't know when it was created.<ref>{{cite web |title=GNP FAQ|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229202924/http:/aetherlumina.com/gnp/listing.html |url=http://aetherlumina.com/gnp/listing.html|archive-date=29 February 2012}}</ref> Andrés Pérez-Bergquist recommended a version of this set (with the "zie" spelling, and accusative "zim") in 2000, but claims not to have created it.<ref>{{cite web|last=Pérez-Bergquist |first=Andrés |title=Gender-neutral pronouns: The value of zie|date=2000|url=http://santiago.mapache.org/nonfiction/essays/zie.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216114837/http://santiago.mapache.org/nonfiction/essays/zie.html |archive-date=16 February 2019}}</ref> | ||
'''Use in fiction:''' | '''Use in fiction:''' |