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单词 s/he
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Forms: 1800s [s]he, 1800s– (s)he, 1900s– s-he, 1900s– s/he.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: she or he, she/he.
Etymology: Written representation of, or graphic abbreviation for, either she or he or she/he.
Used as a third person singular subject pronoun to include both genders: he or she.
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1871 Amer. Educ. Monthly Apr. 190 Exceptions taken..to the common combination, ‘female prayer-meeting’. Some wise body discovered that a meeting was without sex, and at once cried out against the impropriety; chiefly, we suppose, because [s]he did not like the word female, and wished to be rid of it.
1882 Present Age 9 Mar. 147/2 The Prairie Farmer, having occasion to speak of the unknown writer of a communication which bore both masculine and feminine characteristics, expressed the doubtful sex by using the form (s)he.
1908 Camera Feb. 42 S-he seems to think that..all photography is simplicity.
1921 Missions Code (Foreign Missions Conference North America) 5 Do not think s–he (they) would accept.
1973 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Dec. 1/5 Bowing to women's lib, the Service Employes Union replaces the pronoun ‘he’ in its new steward's manual with the term ‘s/he’.
1978 Amer. Educator Winter 65 A child's sexual orientation is determined before s/he enters school.
1982 Benedicta! Fall 13 Can s/he figure out your address?
2004 Cadence May 31/1 Whoever this player is, s/he has been influenced by players like McCoy Tyner.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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