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Still more remarkable, the pronoun set “ne/nis/nir” originated half a century before that, in the 1850s.

Converse, whose strategy was to combine the words “that” and “one.” This set popped up in crossword puzzles, comic strips, and some publications, but it never really caught on and was eventually forgotten. This set was created for ease of use by a lawyer named Charles C. Elverson described this set as “transgender pronouns” and came up with the three words by dropping “th” from “they/them/their.” Another set, “thon/thons/thonself,” was listed in Funk and Wagnalls dictionary from 1898 to 1964. Elverson to replace “he/him/his” and “she/her/hers.” It was the winning entry in a contest by the Chicago Association of Business Communicators, who were looking for an alternative to the gendered pronouns. For example, the pronoun set “ey/em/eir” was created in 1975 by Christine M. Neopronouns are new coinages that were created as an alternative to “they.” Some of them go back further than you might guess, and new ones have cropped up over the years.

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