A new pronoun? Again?

Dennis Baron debaron at UIUC.EDU
Tue Nov 28 18:10:20 UTC 2006


The Hartford Courant, The LA Times, and the Chronicle of Higher
Education have all recently reported on the new gender-neutral
pronoun hu.  But the real scoop on this new word is on the Web of
Language.




Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217-244-0568
fax: 217-333-4321

www.uiuc.edu/goto/debaron

read the Web of Language:
www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage

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