Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1912 — Another Common Gender Pronoun Offered [ARTICLE]

Another Common Gender Pronoun Offered

By A. E. Schuyler,

Edison Park, 111.

Before the subject of common gender pronouns is dropped I would like to offer ray suggestion. ■ Already several good ones have been proposed, but in each instance the new word might conflict, in sound if not in spelling, with other words already in use. I would suggest “heor,” “hisor,” fhimor,” in which case the other gender would he understood, as it would take the place of “lie or she,” “his or her,” “him or her.” And further, to make it more plain, the words might be hyphenated, such as “heor,” “his-or,” “him-or,” and in this way

hey could not possibly conflict with ant* other word.