Pronoun

(English Pronouns)

(label) they (singular).

* {{quote-web

, year = 1992 , first = Jim , last = Sinclair , title = If you could choose... , site = Jim Sinclair's Web Site , url = http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/choice.htm , archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20031103004908/http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/choice.htm , archivedate = 2003-11-03 , passage = Anyone I would be interested in would have to be a pretty special person. I wouldn't want to miss out on knowing such a person just because xe happened to be the "wrong" sex. }}

* {{quote-newsgroup

, date = 1993-09-14 , first = Jim , last = Sinclair , title = Re: Jim and Steve's snoring discussion , newsgroup = bit.listserv.autism , id = AUTISM%93091417074261@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU , url = https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups

!msg/bit.listserv.autism/2pyrOMzt_nQ/5J-RU5P3hnIJ

, passage = Telepathy would require that you share the other person's knowledge of xyr own mind, which in turn requires recognizing that xe' is actually aware of what ' xe' s thinking, which is incompatible with psychiatry. }}

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, date = 1999-04-28 , first = Dagmar , last = Alpen , title = Re: Think of a small tribe of people... , newsgroup = talk.politics.libertarian , id = 7g74qb$8sq$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de , url = https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups

!msg/talk.politics.libertarian/Wxi8N4PwnW0/yRrhhmYAGygJ

, passage = Now full ownership in the modern sense... implies four rights of the owner: 1. The right to decide what xe does with xyr property; 2. the right to decide what others do with xyr property; }}

* {{quote-newsgroup

, date = 2000-12-11 , title = Silencing and ad hominem attacks , first = Mary Ellen , last = Curtin , newsgroup = alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated , id = 074d01c06393$c1a2fb00$5be9cfcf@default , url = http://groups.google.com/group/alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated/msg/3a23ecdc585ca8b1 , passage = Since xe' went to the trouble of re-posting, I figured it was about something of more than usual importance to hir... I wrote to EmGee privately and '''xe''' said yes, that was one of the things ' xe was talking about. }}

* {{quote-newsgroup

, date = 2002-03-03 , title = Re: Newbie...not quite sure yet... , first = Ken , last = von Mattell , newsgroup = alt.suicide.holiday , id = rif48uc0ja9q3km9o2jf167d4u4o3qpk1k@4ax.com , url = https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups

!msg/alt.suicide.holiday/azDueNoiilA/JtxS4uc12pkJ

, passage = I mean, suppose there's someone who can't leave the house because xe''s all tied up with counting tiles in the bathroom all day, and if ' xe manages to get done with that, there's the stove to check again and again ... you get the idea. }}