Third person neutral pronoun!

[James Smith]

Serendipitously, Tom Zurinskas has led us to an
obvious neutral third person pronoun, one that we've
heard used for years.  But it just now registered with
me!  On Don Blaheta's web page on phonetic alphabets,
linked through Tom's e-mail, Don writes "...e will
specify what scheme e's using to transcribe it to
ASCII."  Some speakers of English have been using this
neutral "e" for years; why have the rest of us been so
blind and deaf to it?


James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.


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