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Then there is the additional form for the first person plural treated under "Pronouns," running through all the sixteen tenses, common and emphatic, animate and inanimate and intransitive, 96 more -- making the astonishing number of 1241 forms of a single verb!
History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Andrew J. Blackbird
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Le Guin's 1994 afterword for The left Hand of Darkness, called The Gender of Pronouns: What a very dry, dull matter, of no conceivable importance to anyone but grammarians and pedants!
March 2009 2009
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Pronouns have zealously retained their case markings through hell and high water.
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Le Guin's 1994 afterword for The left Hand of Darkness, called The Gender of Pronouns: What a very dry, dull matter, of no conceivable importance to anyone but grammarians and pedants!
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Pronouns have zealously retained their case markings through hell and high water.
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On this count, despite its uneven prose, "The Secret Life of Pronouns" succeeds.
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Pronouns are used interchangeably, and the varying mannerisms, behavior and vocal inflections used by the contestants when they are presenting as men and when they are presenting as women appear entirely natural and seamless.
“Hey, Fake Ladies!”: On the Construction of Gender in RuPaul’s Drag Race « Gender Across Borders 2010
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Even using the pronoun "we" instead of "you" when discussing problems in marriage is an indicator of less marital happiness, according to a 2006 study, "Pronouns in Marital Interaction" by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill.
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News at Eleven: Pronouns aside, Umberto Saba emerges as a poet powerfully drawn to figures of mothers and girls, as well as to cityscapes.
News at Eleven: Pronouns aside, [Umberto] Saba emerges Rus Bowden 2009
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My panel, “Transgressive Poets and the Pronouns that Love Them” was rejected
Hello vast emptiness, : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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