"hur": the new 3rd (and 2nd) person neutral pronoun!

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Jan 23, 2008 7:55 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ben writes:
>
> "Perhaps it just needs to be reintroduced a few more times before it
> catches on!"
>
> Is this a call for activism or is it merely irony?

Yeah, that was my attempt at emoticon-less irony. I'm on record
calling these epicene pronouns quixotic...

http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/pronoun/

But I do think the Baltimore "yo" is an intriguing development.

--Ben Zimmer

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