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A guide to neopronouns

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A personal pronoun is a form of speech that stands in for a person or group of people. She is having opinions online; they are fighting in the comments; and, of course, as in the Prince song made famous by Sinead O'Connor, "Nothing Compares 2 U."

Nonbinary pronouns, as well — often the singular "they" and "them"— have become widespread. A 2019 Pew Research study found already that one in five Americans knew someone who uses nonbinary pronouns.

And then there are neopronouns. A neopronoun can be a word a created to serve as pronoun without expressing gender, like "ze" and "zir." A neopronoun can also be a so-called "noun-self pronoun," in which a pre-existing word is drafted into use as a pronoun...

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