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What is the difference between ze and sie?

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Sie is a synonym of ze.

Ze is a synonym of sie.


In context|neologism|lang=en terms the difference between ze and sie

is that ze is (neologism) they (singular) while sie is (neologism).

As pronouns the difference between ze and sie

is that ze is (neologism) they (singular) while sie is (neologism).

As a article ze

is .

As a verb sie is

to sink; fall; drop.

As a noun sie is

a drop.

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

    sie

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Verb

  • To sink; fall; drop.
  • To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
  • (dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
  • To sift.
  • (dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drop.
  • Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Pronoun

  • (neologism)
  • * 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
  • If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions,
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 2010 , date = September 16 , title = Amaranth and Ash , author = Jessica Freely , publisher = Lightning Source , location = La Vergne , isbn = 9781461136620 , page = 101 , passage = "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's. , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=WpHMcQAACAAJ }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 2011 , date = May 19 , title = The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant , author = Ken Wickham , publisher = CreateSpace , isbn = 9781461136620 , page = 7 , passage = Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders. , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=zWmWZwEACAAJ }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 2011 , date = August 16 , title = Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape , author = Petra Kuppers , publisher = Palgrave Macmillan , location = New York , isbn = 9780230298279 , id = , lccn = 2011012058 , page = 18 , passage = When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie' offered me this language, '' sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.' , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=jAP1tgAACAAJ }}
    Synonyms
    * (gender-neutral) he or she, * (gender-neutral) (singular) they * (gender-neutral) (neologism) e, ey, shi, ze, per

    Anagrams

    *

    See also

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