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'''Neopronouns''' are defined as are any set of singular third person pronouns that are not officially recognized in the language they are used in, typically created with the intent of being a gender neutral pronoun set.
 
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==History==
 
==History==
 
Historically, there were two gender-neutral pronouns native to English dialects, ''ou'' and ''(h)a''. According to Dennis Baron's ''Grammar and Gender'':
 
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Neopronouns are defined as are any set of singular third person pronouns that are not officially recognized in the language they are used in, typically created with the intent of being a gender neutral pronoun set.


History

Historically, there were two gender-neutral pronouns native to English dialects, ou and (h)a. According to Dennis Baron's Grammar and Gender:

Baron goes on to describe how relics of these gender-neutral terms survive in some British dialects of Modern English (for example hoo for "she", in Yorkshire), and sometimes a pronoun of one gender might be applied to a human or non-human animal of the opposite gender. This aforementioned hoo is also sometimes used in the West Midlands and south-west England as a common gender pronoun.

In some West Country dialects, the pronoun er can be used in place of either he or she, although only in weak (unstressed) positions such as in tag questions.

Additionally, in Essex, in the south-east of England, in the Middle English period, the spelling "hye" could refer to either he or she. More recently, in the city of Baltimore, and possibly other cities in the United States, yo has come to be used as a gender-neutral pronoun.

Various proposals for the use of other non-standard pronouns have been introduced since at least the 19th century.

According to Dennis Baron, the neologism that received the greatest partial mainstream acceptance was Charles Crozat Converse's 1884 proposal of thon] a contraction of "that one" (other sources date its coinage to 1858):

"Co" was coined by feminist writer Mary Orovan in 1970. "Co" is in common usage in intentional communities of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities, and "co" appears in the bylaws of several of these communities. In addition to use when the gender of the antecedent is unknown or indeterminate, some use it as gender-blind language and always replace gender-specific pronouns.

Several variants of ze have been proposed, with different object forms, to meet the need of unspecified gender situations and transgender persons. Kate Bornstein, an American transgender author, used the pronoun forms ze and hir in the book "Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure" in 1996. Jeffrey A. Carver, an American science fiction writer, used the pronoun hir in the novel "From a Changeling Star" for a different-gendered nonhuman, in 1989.

Nominative (subject) Oblique (object) Independent genitive

(Possessive )

Dependent genitive

(Possessive)

Reflexive
Common pronouns
he he is laughing I called him his eyes gleam that is his he likes himself
she she is laughing I called her her eyes gleam that is hers she likes herself
it it is laughing I called it its eyes gleam that is its it likes itself
one one is laughing I called one one's eyes gleam that is one's one likes oneself
they they are laughing I called them their eyes gleam that is theirs they like themselves

they like themself

'em I called 'em
yo

(regional, c. 2004)

Yo is laughing I called yo yos eyes gleam that is yos yo likes yoself
Written conventions based on traditional pronouns
she/he he/she is laughing I called him/her his/her eyes gleam that is his/hers he/she likes him/herself
s/he s/he is laughing I called him/r his/r eyes gleam that is his/rs s/he likes him/herself
hhe

(French, 1986)

hhe is laughing
Artificial and proposed epicene pronouns
thon

(Converse, 1884)

thon is laughing I called thon thons eyes gleam that is thons thon likes thonself
e

(Rogers, 1890)

e is laughing I called em es eyes gleam that is es e likes emself
tey

(Miller&Swift, 1971)

tey is laughing I called tem ter eyes gleam that is ters
xe

(Rickter, c. 1973)

xe is laughing I called xem xyr eyes gleam that is xyrs xe likes xemself
te

(Farrel, 1974)

te is laughing I called tir tes eyes gleam
ey

(Elverson, 1975)

ey is laughing I called em eir eyes gleam that is eirs ey likes eirself
per

(Piercy, 1979)

per is laughing I called per per eyes gleam that is pers per likes perself
ve

(Hulme, c. 1980)

ve is laughing I called ver vis eyes gleam that is vis ve likes verself
hu

(Humanist, 1982)

hu is laughing I called hum hus eyes gleam that is hus hu likes humself
E

(Spivak, 1983)

E is laughing I called Em Eir eyes gleam that is Eirs E likes Emself
ze, mer

(Creel, 1997)

ze is laughing I called mer zer eyes gleam that is zers ze likes zemself
ze, hir

(Bornstein, 1998)

ze (zie, sie) is laughing I called hir hir eyes gleam that is hirs ze (zie, sie) likes hirself
zhe

(Foldvary, 2000)

zhe is laughing I called zhim zher eyes gleam that is zhers zhe likes zhimself
sie, hir

(Hyde, 2001)

sie is laughing I called hir hir eyes gleam that is hirs sie likes hirself
peh

(Dicebox, 2012?)

peh is laughing I called pehm peh's eyes gleam that is peh's peh likes pehself
ze, zir

(anon., c. 2013)

ze (zie, sie) is laughing I called zir/zem zir/zes eyes gleam that is zirs/zes ze (zie, sie) likes zirself/zemself
fae fae is laughing I called faer faer eyes gleam that is faers fae likes faerself

Subsets

Nounself

Main article: Nounself

Nounself pronouns are a subset of neopronouns that are more directly based on words, often nouns.

History

It is unclear where the word "nounself" itself was first coined, although it may be on Tumblr because of the amount of popularity that nounself sets gained, starting in 2015.

Thonself

The earliest example of what could be called a nounself pronoun was proposed by by American lawyer Charles Crozat Converse in 1884. Converse took the words "this one" and "that one" and proposed thon as a gender-neutral pronoun set.

thon. Pronoun of the 3rd person, common gender, meaning “that one, he she, or it”: a neoterism proposed by Charles Crozat Converse, and apparently complying with the neoteristic canons, since it supplies an antecedent blank, obeys a simple and obvious analogy, and is euphonious.
— —Funk and Wagnalls, Supplement to A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, 1903, https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/third-person-gender-neutral-pronoun-thon

For most of the 20th century, thon appeared in various publications of Funk and Wagnalls, and also spread to another dictionary, Merriam-Webster’s Second New International Dictionary (1934 edition). Thon was removed from abridged dictionary in the third edition.

Humanist Pronouns

Often called humanist pronouns, hu/hum/hus/hus/humself was used in several college humanities texts published by Bandanna Books and originated by editor Sasha Newborn in 1982.

Faeself And Others

One of the most commonly recognized nounself pronoun sets is fae/faer, first seen online in 2013.[1]

Okay, so!

Why did I choose fae/vaer as my pronouns?

Because I am fae. I am described as such by people who don’t know me — fae and feline and not-exactly-human. I do identify as faen, and in some ways angel as well, and fae and angel are the goals of my presentation. My choice of fae as a pronoun reflects this.

Using fae as a pronoun started out half a joke, a 1am offhand comment that fae would be one of the only things I could use as a pronoun and identify with. The next morning, it wasn’t so much a joke anymore, and by the end of the day my girlfriend and I had come up with how fae would work as a pronoun.

To address the point about fae as binary or not — it depends on your source material. My personal view on this is that fae and fae creatures as stand outside the binary. They probably have some form of gender, but it’s most definitely not our human binary. Angels, on the other hand, are genderless. They have no sex and they have no gender. Together, fae and angels are the two sides of androgyny that are possible, and kind of form a secondary arc around the male/female binary: that of gendered/genderless.

…so in some ways, I’m using fae as a giant ‘fuck you’ to the gender binary and a refusal of much of the American culture surrounding gender. My gender is yes. Except when it’s no. Either way, it’s not male or female and using a pronoun that is very associated with creatures that stand outside humankind is, for me at least, a very good way to remind people of this constantly.

— Eidolan


Emojiself

Main article: Emojiself

Emojiself pronouns are a subset of neopronouns and nounself pronouns that replace the content of the pronoun entirely with an emoji.

Usage

Misgendering

See main article: Misgendering

Using the incorrect pronouns for someone when you are aware of their pronouns is misgendering. Misgendering is an act of erasure and transphobia.

Controversy

  • It is a common claim (usually of Exclusionist groups) that neopronouns, especially nounself pronouns, are a new invention. However, this is untrue and ahistorical.
  • Another common claim is that using fae/faer or similar pronouns is cultural appropriate against Pagans/Celtrics; However these aren't the only cultures that have fae[2], the original coiner identified as a fae faerself[3], and Celts and Pagans are statistically more likely to feel actively good [4]about someone’s fae/faer pronouns, even when that person is not a Celt/Pagan.

List of neopronouns

See main article: Neopronoun/List

Gallery

Flags

Combinations


Sources