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What is the difference between him and em?

him | em | Synonyms |

Him is a synonym of em.


As pronouns the difference between him and em

is that him is while em is (neologism) them (singular).

As a noun em is

.

him

English

(wikipedia him)

Pronoun

  • # With dative effect or as an indirect object.
  • #* '1897' (578 m)'', (Bram Stoker), ''Dracula :
  • ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
  • # Following a preposition.
  • #* '1813' (553 m)'', (Jane Austen), ''Pride and Prejudice :
  • She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
  • # With accusative effect or as a direct object.
  • #* '1853' (565 m)'', (Charles Dickens), ''Bleak House :
  • ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
  • * '1526' (465 m)'', (William Tyndale), trans. ''Bible , Acts XII:
    • Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym' in royall apparell, and set ' hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
  • * '1765' (538 m)'',
    • Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
    He sees his little lot the lot of all;
    [...]
    But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,
    Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
  • With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after (be), or following a preposition.
  • * 'c. 1616' (493 m)'', (William Shakespeare), ''Macbeth , First Folio 1623, V.10:
    • Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him , that first cries hold, enough.
  • * '2003' (611 m)'', Claire Cozens, ''The Guardian , 11 Jun 2003:
    • Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him .

    • See also

    (English personal pronouns)

    See also

    * he * his * her * them

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * 100 English basic words English personal pronouns English third person pronouns 1000 English basic words ----

    em

    English

    Etymology 1

    The typographic em is named after the metal type for the capital (M) in early printing, whose body was square (the printed letter M is almost never one em in width).

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends.
  • (typography) A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
    • Synonyms
    * (typography) quad, em quad * (typography) mutton, mut
    Derived terms
    * emcee * em dash

    See also

    *

    Etymology 2

    (Spivak pronouns) Coined by Christine M. Elverson by removing the "th" from (them), perhaps influenced by (term, 'em).

    Pronoun

  • (neologism) them (singular).
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 1986-04-01 , title = The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX macro package , first = Michael , last = Spivak , location = Providence , publisher = American Mathematical Society , page = 68 , isbn = 0821829998 , id = , lccn = 85007506 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=kXzxAAAAMAAJ&q=up+to+Em+to+indicate+Eir , passage = If the author uses such notation, it should be up to Em to indicate Eir intentions clearly, but there's no harm checking first. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1997 , title = Doom Patrols : A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism , first = Steven , last = Shaviro , publisher = Serpent's Tail , location = London , isbn = 9781852424305 , lccn = 9668813 , page = 138 , passage = I may become quite intimate with someone, spend hours with em every night, and yet not have the slightest idea what eir voice sounds like, or what eir RL body looks, feels, and smells like. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2000 , chapter = Ethics, Plugged and Unplugged: The Pegagogy of Disorderly Conduct , first = Jane , last = Love , title = Taking flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work , editors = Inman, James A.; Sewell, Donna N. , publisher = Taylor & Francis , isbn = 0805831711 , id = , page = 193 , passage = E invites em to consider how ey represent emselves(SIC), and in so doing, e focuses eir attention on the ethics that make human relations possible. , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=aFKqSzIxCLkC&pg=PA193 }}
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2011-03-15 , title =
  • 89: New Friend
    • , blog = Riot Nrrd , first = RJ , last = Edwards , url = http://www.riotnrrdcomics.com/2011/03/89-new-friend/ , accessdate = 2012-10-06 , passage = And ultimately: I think my readers are mature enough that knowing eir assigned gender is not going to give them an “excuse” to misgender em . }}
    Synonyms
    * him or her, * (singular) them * (neologism) hir
    Derived terms
    * (neologism) emself

    See also

    * other gender-neutral pronouns

    Etymology 3

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (Scotland, Ireland) a form of hesitant speech, or an expression of uncertainty; um; umm; erm
    • She was going to, em ... the salon, I think.

    Anagrams

    * English two-letter words English third person pronouns ----