gender-neutral substitute for "his or her"

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On the academic boards I visit the convention seems to be hu. The usage is like this: “When hu goes to class hu needs to bring their syllabus”.

It is probably (but I don’t know for certain) derived from human.
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Hu’s on first? :stuck_out_tongue:

I like the Spivak pronouns (E for he/she, em for him/her, etc) the most, because if you slur your speech a little, it still sounds like english, as opposed to that Thon or Xyrs nonsense.

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I just knock the ‘th’ off ‘they’ and its related words, and use ‘ey’, 'em, ‘emself’… when I remember about it.

I have a feeling that, logically, that last one shoulf be ‘eirself’, but somehow ‘emself’ comes out more easily.