English Explanatory Dictionary

Spivak pronoun

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a set of gender-neutral neopronouns occasionally used in English, formerly associated with the LambdaMOO online community.

Word forms

Spivak pronoun Spivak pronouns

Etymology

Named after American mathematician Michael Spivak who used the pronouns E, Em, and Eir in the 1982 book "The Joy of TeX". Spivak did not coin the pronoun set he used in the book.

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