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Khon vs Thon - What's the difference?

khon | thon |

As nouns the difference between khon and thon

is that khon is a thai form of dance with music and narration while thon is .

khon

English

Noun

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  • A Thai form of dance with music and narration.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 9, author=Jennifer Dunning, title=Hear Them Talk and See Them Dance, Then Watch Their Cultures Clash, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=But he has found his perfect complement in Mr. Klunchun, a practitioner of khon , a form of classical Thai masked dance, who wanders serenely with Mr. Bel through a series of cultural collisions until the gentle cataclysm that suddenly and amusingly ends the conversation. }}

    thon

    English

    Pronoun

  • (rare, see usage notes) they (singular).
  • * {{quote-journal
  • , year = 1889 , month = November , title = That Desired Impersonal Pronoun , journal = The Writer , first = C. Crozat , last = Converse , publisher = William H. Hills , city = Boston , volume = 3 , issue = 2 , page = 248 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QQQ-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA248 , passage = Every writer has "thons" verbal likes and dislikes, yet, for the sake of convenience, I trust that even "thon " who dislikes verbal innovations will give my little word a little trial and note for me the result. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1895 , title = Outlines of Psychology , first = Henry Graham , last = Williams , publisher = C. W. Bardee , location = Syracuse , edition = 3rd , ol = 25083084M , ia = outlinesofpsycho01will , id = , page = 5 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=_BEAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=thon , passage = Every student should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively correlate the facts of thons knowledge. }}
  • * {{quote-journal
  • , year = 1907 , month = August , title = Th? Sol:—Hwens?—Hwither? , first = C. W. , last = Larisunz , journal = Th? Jurn?l ?v ?rth??pi & ?rth?gr?fi , volume = 24 , issue = 8 , page = 153 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=hTJAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA153 , passage = In everi individ??l then, ?r th? el?ments ?ut ?v hwich everi sol haz p?uer tu ?labor?t ?ntu thonself hw?tever c?ndish?n thon' d?z?rz — tu m?c f?r thonself heven ?r hel, hwichever ' thon iz wili? tu str?v f?r. , transliteration = In every individual then, are the elements out of which every soul has power to elaborate unto thonself whatever condition thon' desires — to make for thonself heaven or hell, whichever ' thon is willing to strive for. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1985 , title = On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction , first = William Knowlton , last = Zinsser , authorlink = William Zinsser , publisher = Harper & Row , location = New York , edition = 3rd , page = 121 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=fiZFAAAAYAAJ , isbn = 978-0060154097 , id = , lccn = 84048208 , passage = Maybe I don't speak for the average American, but I very much doubt that thon' wants that word in thons language or that ' thon would use it thonself. }}
  • (rare, see usage notes) them (singular).
  • * {{quote-journal
  • , date = 1884-07-23 , title = A New Pronoun , journal = The Critic and Good Literature , first = C. C. , last = Converse , city = New York , issue = 31 , page = 55 , published_date = 1884-08-02 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=9H_mAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA55 , passage = If Mr. or Mrs. A. comes to the courthouse on Monday next I will be there to meet thon . }}

    Usage notes

    A neologism when Charles Crozat Converse coined it in 1858, thon has seen limited use since then.

    Derived terms

    * (neologism) thons * (neologism) thonself

    Synonyms

    * (as subject) (singular) they * (as object) (singular) them * (neologism) ey, e, sie, shi, ze, per, co

    Hyponyms

    * (as subject) he, she * (as object) him, her

    See also

    * other gender-neutral pronouns