- Look up
epicene or
epicenity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Epicenity is the lack of
gender distinction,
often reducing the
emphasis on the masculine...
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British newspapers showed a
preference for they to be used as a
singular epicene pronoun. The
increased use of
singular they may owe in part to an increasing...
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English epicene pronoun,
singular "ou": "'Ou will'
expresses either he will, she will, or it will."
Marshall traces "ou" to
Middle English epicene "a", used...
- key areas: A
masculine suffix,
parallel to the
feminine -ino An
epicene affix An
epicene pronoun (like s/he or
singular they in English)
Three specific...
- but the
conjunction of "K" and "S" sounds; “Maksym”, or "Maxym") is an
epicene (or gender-neutral)
first name of
Roman origin mainly given to males. It...
- Epicœne, or The
Silent Woman, also
known as
Epicene, is a
comedy by
Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson. The play is
about a man
named Dauphine, who creates...
- A uni**** name (also
known as an
epicene name, a gender-neutral name or an
androgynous name) is a
given name that is not gender-specific. Uni**** names...
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person singular (distinguishing
between she/her [feminine], they/them [
epicene], and he/him [masculine]). The
subjective case
corresponds to the Old English...
- (singular, plural);
gender (masculine, feminine,
neuter or inanimate,
epicene)
English also has
other pronoun types,
including demonstrative, relative...
- it had
reached its
modern form.
Singular they is a use of they as an
epicene (gender-neutral)
pronoun for a
singular referent. In this usage, they follows...
