Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A word coined, in 1858, by C. C. Converse, as a pronoun of the third person and of common gender designed to be substituted for the locutions ‘him or her,’ ‘his or hers,’ etc. It has been but little used.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- pronoun rare
they (singular).Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronounshe andshe . - pronoun rare
them (singular).Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronounshim andher .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Cause: One of the things I find particularly cool about the read-a-thon is that people read for a cause, usually one related to literacy.
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The Cause: One of the things I find particularly cool about the read-a-thon is that people read for a cause, usually one related to literacy.
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The Cause: One of the things I find particularly cool about the read-a-thon is that people read for a cause, usually one related to literacy.
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The Cause: One of the things I find particularly cool about the read-a-thon is that people read for a cause, usually one related to literacy.
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The Cause: One of the things I find particularly cool about the read-a-thon is that people read for a cause, usually one related to literacy.
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The Cause: One of the things I find particularly cool about the read-a-thon is that people read for a cause, usually one related to literacy.
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The Cause: One of the things I find particularly cool about the read-a-thon is that people read for a cause, usually one related to literacy.
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The Cause: One of the things I find particularly cool about the read-a-thon is that people read for a cause, usually one related to literacy.
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A'd been hopin thon wis the last fae him, bit seeminlie A'm oot o luck.
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From all appearances, it seems that Fast-a-thon is an attempt at crypto-dawah — getting people involved in Islamic practices unwittingly, and perhaps only after the fact letting them know that they have participated in a Muslim religious ritual.
The non-kinetic 5GW jihad against the US continues « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2008
john commented on the word thon
Gender-neutral pronoun.
October 11, 2007