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Any advice on where I could find declensions of ou? Would there even be any declensions? Anyone know an expert in historical linguistics or middle english? I could do with a referral! In 1789, William H. Marshall records the existence of a dialectal 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 by the fourteenth-century English writer John of Trevisa, and both the OED and Wrights English Dialect Dictionary confirm the use of a for he, she, it, they, and even I. Article on ou: bradshawofthefuture.blogspot.ca/2012/01/native-english-epicene-pronouns.html Website with a disturbingly long list of invented pronouns: aetherlumina/gnp/history.html For those wanting to dig on related subjects: genderneutralpronoun.wordpress/links/pronoun-perspectives/
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 02:50:26 +0000

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