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Ey vs Ze - What's the difference?

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Ze is a synonym of ey.



In neologism terms the difference between ey and ze

is that ey is they singular. Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns {{term|he and {{term|she}}.} while ze is they singular. Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns {{term|he and {{term|she}}.}.

As a noun ey

is an egg.

As an article ze is

eye dialect of lang=en usually signifying a foreign accent, often French.

As an initialism ZE is

zollinger-Ellison syndrome.

ey

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ey, from (etyl) . Was displaced by egg in the 16th century, most likely due to its clashing with the word "eye", with which it had come to be a homonym.

Noun

(eyren) (obsolete since the sixteenth century )
  • (obsolete) an egg

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Compare eyot.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An island.

    • Etymology 3

    (Spivak pronouns) Coined by Christine M. Elverson by removing the "th" from (they).

    Pronoun

  • (neologism) they (singular).
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 1975-08-23 , title = Ey has a word for it , newspaper = Chicago Tribune , first = Judie , last = Black , section = 1 , page = 12 , passage = Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey' wouldn't clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And if '''ey''' should trip up in the new usage, ' ey would only have emself to blame. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 1996-12-22 , first = Shirley , last = Worth , title = New To Yoga , newsgroup = alt.yoga , id = 32BDCA0C.6C8@worth.org , url = http://groups.google.com/group/alt.yoga/msg/4c5da8eb08c0d91b , passage = I'm not familiar with this book, but I encourage Marksmill to look for it-- and while ey is at it, to also look at a number of other books. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 1997-11-25 , first = Scott Robert , last = Dawson , title = Who Pays for Cellular Calls , newsgroup = alt.cellular , id = 347acf56.333719@news.interlog.com , url = http://groups.google.com/group/alt.cellular/msg/cffb0aa99cf205e6 , passage = If a mobile user is far from eir home area, ey will pay a long-distance fee for carriage of the call *from* eir home area, just as a caller would pay long-distance on a call *to* that area. }}
  • *
    • Synonyms
    * * (singular) they * (neologism) e, sie, shi, ze
    Coordinate terms
    * he, she

    Anagrams

    *

    See also

    * other gender-neutral pronouns * suffix -ey English third person pronouns ----

    ze

    English

    Etymology 1

    Article

    (head)
  • .
  • * 1992 , Tristan Jones, Adrift , page 257:
    • Then one French-American sous-chef, still in his white kitchen gear, climbed down from the cockpit, where he had been inspecting the cabin, peering inside, murmuring, "wonderfool–wonderfool, ze workmansheep!"

    Etymology 2

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (neologism) they (singular).
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1996 , month = June , title = Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure , first = Caitlin , last = Sullivan , coauthors = , publisher = Serpent's Tail , location = New York , isbn = 978-1852424183 , id = , lccn = 95072971 , ol = 820831M , page = 10 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QV5bAAAAMAAJ , passage = But I do know what sex ze' is. It used to influence me. But now I talk to hir like a normal person. I mean, without thinking about what ' ze is.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 1997-12-18 , title = My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely , first = Kate , last = Bornstein , authorlink = Kate Bornstein , publisher = Routledge , location = London, New York , isbn = 978-0415916738 , id = , lccn = 98134184 , ol = 7495768M , page = 130 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=NjH32xMTu7kC&pg=PA130 , passage = A case in point is Tula, a transgendered woman who for years lived well as a model and actress until ze was outed in both national and international media.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2006-03-22 , title = Drag King Dreams , first = Leslie , last = Feinberg , publisher = Carroll & Graf , location = New York , isbn = 978-0786717637 , id = , lccn = 2006297545 , ol = 17890120M , page = 205 , passage = Ze'' takes my right hand in ''hirs and folds it into a fist.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2010-10-12 , title = The Girl Must Die: A Monster Girl Memoir , first = Erika , last = Lopez , others = Hicken, Jeffrey , publisher = Monster Girl Media , location = San Francisco , isbn = 978-0984401406 , lccn = 21010902427 , page = 143 , passage = Ze changed hir name to one of those New Testament names, and re-fashioned hirself into a soft, puffy, half-finished hermaphrodite nicknamed, The Pop n' Fresh Doe.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2011-03-15 , title = Up Against It , first = M. J. , last = Locke , publisher = Tor , location = New York , isbn = 978-0765315151 , id = , lccn = 2010036538 , ol = 24494916M , page = 361 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=dTtZ4GPU6z0C&pg=PA361 , passage = Hir face was implacable, but ze dashed away in tears.}}
    Synonyms
    * (singular) they * (neologism) e, ey, sie
    Hyponyms
    * he, she
    Usage notes
    * The genderqueer community are the primary proponents of ze''. One refers to a person with ''ze and (hir) typically (a) when their gender is unknown, and one wishes to avoid assuming their gender, or (b) when they are neither male nor female in gender, making (he) and (she) (and also either/or terms like ) inappropriate and potentially hurtful.

    See also

    * other gender-neutral pronouns

    Anagrams

    * English third person pronouns ----