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English citations of eir
their (singular)
[edit]- 1986 April 1, Michael Spivak, The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX macro package[1], Providence: American Mathematical Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC Z253.4.T47 S673 1986, page 68:
- If the author uses such notation, it should be up to Em to indicate Eir intentions clearly, but there's no harm checking first.
- 1996 December 22, Shirley Worth, “New To Yoga”, in alt.yoga[2] (Usenet), message-ID <32BDCA0C.6C8@worth.org>:
- Example: In the classical Mountain Pose (Tadasana), the feet are to be together, pointing straight ahead. A person whose habit is to stand and walk splay-footed may *think* eir feet are straight ahead, when they are actually pointed only slightly less out. [...] I'm not familiar with this book, but I encourage Marksmill to look for it-- and while ey is at it, to also look at a number of other books.
- 1997, Steven Shaviro, Doom Patrols : A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, London: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:
- Kate Bornstein thus defines eir transsexual experience as the condition of being "a former-man and not-quite-woman."
- Each player on the MOO has eir own pseudonym or 'handle': so that unless you choose to tell me, there's no way I can find out who you 'really' are.
- 1997 November 25, Scott Robert Dawson, “Who Pays for Cellular Calls”, in alt.cellular[3] (Usenet), message-ID <347acf56.333719@news.interlog.com>:
- If a mobile user is far from eir home area, ey will pay a long-distance fee for carriage of the call *from* eir home area, just as a caller would pay long-distance on a call *to* that area.
- 1999 May 12, Robin Lee Powell, “Jumped the Gun re: Cancel Watch”, in soc.bi[4] (Usenet), message-ID <926538227.593985@watserv5.uwaterloo.ca>:
- It was me, actually, that made the offensive clothing comments. Someone elsewhere in the thread did a much better job of expressing it then I did. Basically, someone with a reasonable understanding of social standards in eir society should not be surprised if people stare and/or come on to eir[sic] when ey is wearing clothing that is considered provacative[sic] and/or sexy by said social standards.
- 2000, Jane Love, “Ethics, Plugged and Unplugged: The Pegagogy of Disorderly Conduct”, in James A. Inman, Donna N. Sewell, editors, Taking flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →OL, LCC PE1414.T24 1999, page 193: