Thread: Is it time English adopt a genderless pronoun?
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Old 08-29-2012, 01:23 PM   #110
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
That's an easy solution. Instead of him or her, use hir.
Not bad. "Hur" would sound too much like "her", "Har" would be too much like a laugh, "Hir" sounds too much like "Here" or "Hire", and that leaves only one other of the five regular vowels as a possibility, and I don't even want to go there...
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