单词 | hir |
释义 | hirpron. Used as a gender-neutral third person singular objective pronoun; cf. hir adj. In later use often corresponding to the subjective pronoun ze (see ze pron.); cf. also zir pron.Originally proposed as an alternative to him or her in contexts where the gender of a person referred to is undetermined; in later use also adopted by or for individuals who do not identify themselves as either male or female, but rather as another or no gender, or as a combination of genders.Rare in contextual use before the 1990s, except in the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, which introduced the form in August 1920 (see quot. 1920); usage in the newspaper seems to have been discontinued by the late 1940s. ΚΠ 1920 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee 14 Aug. (Editorial page) The word-inventors long ago should have created one to serve for the awkward precision of constantly repeating ‘he or she’, ‘him or her’, and ‘his or her’... ‘Hir’ is The Bee's word for the purpose. 1941 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee 30 Sept. (Editorial page) The reader's interest is that the newspaper not only bring hir information, but that it furnish hir with information which is uncensored, undoctored, and as truthful as news gathering conditions can make possible. 1996 C. Sullivan & K. Bornstein Nearly Roadkill i. 10 Now I talk to hir like a normal person. I mean, without thinking about what ze is. 2014 @sciencegurlz0 5 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Lab manager from other lab just gave me a snarky ‘Where have you been?’ Now that I told hir, ze feels bad. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hiradj. Used as a gender-neutral possessive adjective (determiner); cf. hir pron. In later use often corresponding to the subjective pronoun ze (see ze pron.); cf. also zir adj.Originally proposed as an alternative to his or her in contexts where a person's gender is undetermined; in later use also adopted by or for individuals who do not identify themselves as either male or female, but rather as another or no gender, or as a combination of genders.Rare in contextual use before the 1990s, except in the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, which introduced the form in August 1920; usage in the newspaper seems to have been discontinued by the late 1940s. ΚΠ 1910 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Feb. 5/5 You put forth the use of ‘thon’ as a common gender word for ‘his or her’. I am interested in grammar and suggest that the word ‘hier’ would be a better one and also one more closely related to the two other words in question. 1920 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee 30 Aug. 18/2 Every citizen should make it hir duty to go to the polls tomorrow. 1994 Dinner Invitation in soc.singles (Usenet newsgroup) 27 Jan. I..got the response ‘excellent’ but from the way it sounded ze might not have meant it. Then again ze might. Then hir phone rang and I had to go. 2007 S. G. Davies Challenging Gender Norms ii. 27 When Yanti's marriage to a woman was arranged, s/he felt compelled to really think about hir sexuality. 2016 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 14 July (Ontario ed.) (Focus section) f2 Mx. Podesky, who passes as male, talked about hir decision to keep hir feminine name, Emma, because ze felt that it would force others to think about what an Emma could look like. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < pron.1920adj.1910 |
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