Sippell estimated that there had been approximately 80 suggested ways of saying "him or her" or "his or hers" in a single word that was not they or theirs. This list included, but was not limited to, hes, hiser, hem, ons, e, heer, he’er, hesh, se, heesh, herim, co, tey, per, na, en, herm, em, hir, and shey. In her Master’s thesis from 1991 ( Solving the Great Pronoun Problem), Kelly Ann Sippell provided an extensive list of gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns that had been proposed over the previous hundred and fifty years. Though the word was dropped for lack of use, other gender-neutral pronouns-'they', 'their', and 'them'-remain. 'Thon', short for "that one," appeared in our Unabridged dictionary from 1934-1961.
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