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Se vs Ze - What's the difference?

se | ze |

Se is likely misspelled.


Se has no English definition.

As an article ze is

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

As a pronoun ze is

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

As an initialism ZE is

zollinger-Ellison syndrome.

se

Translingual

Symbol

(head)
  • The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Sweden.

    • Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • European Company (From (etyl) Societas]] [[europaea, Europaea )
    • ISO 3166-1 ----

    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 ----