s/he
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "she"
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
s/he (third person singular, plural they)
- he or she
- 2020 March 14, Martin Belam, “Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV leader Genesis Breyer P-Orridge dies aged 70”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Born as Neil Andrew Megson in Manchester, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge grew up in Essex. S/he was a member of radical art collective COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s, and went on to form Throbbing Gristle with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter.
Usage notes[edit]
This term is used as a gender-neutral third person singular pronoun. One common use is on paper forms.
Synonyms[edit]
- (sometimes proscribed; grammatically plural but semantically singular) they
- (sometimes proscribed) he
- (arbitrarily) she