Etymology 2
(
Spivak pronouns)
Coined by Christine M. Elverson by removing the "th" from (
them), perhaps influenced by (
term,
'em).
Pronoun
(neologism) them (singular).
* {{quote-book
| date = 1986-04-01
| title = The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX macro package
| first = Michael
| last = Spivak
| location = Providence
| publisher = American Mathematical Society
| page = 68
| isbn = 0821829998
| id =
| lccn = 85007506
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=kXzxAAAAMAAJ&q=up+to+Em+to+indicate+Eir
| passage = If the author uses such notation, it should be up to
Em to indicate Eir intentions clearly, but there's no harm checking first.
}}
* {{quote-book
| year = 1997
| title = Doom Patrols : A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism
| first = Steven
| last = Shaviro
| publisher = Serpent's Tail
| location = London
| isbn = 9781852424305
| lccn = 9668813
| page = 138
| passage = I may become quite intimate with someone, spend hours with
em every night, and yet not have the slightest idea what eir voice sounds like, or what eir RL body looks, feels, and smells like.
}}
* {{quote-book
| year = 2000
| chapter = Ethics, Plugged and Unplugged: The Pegagogy of Disorderly Conduct
| first = Jane
| last = Love
| title = Taking flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work
| editors = Inman, James A.; Sewell, Donna N.
| publisher = Taylor & Francis
| isbn = 0805831711
| id =
| page = 193
| passage = E invites
em to consider how ey represent emselves(
SIC), and in so doing, e focuses eir attention on the ethics that make human relations possible.
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=aFKqSzIxCLkC&pg=PA193
}}
* {{quote-web
| date = 2011-03-15
| title =
89: New Friend
| blog = Riot Nrrd
| first = RJ
| last = Edwards
| url = http://www.riotnrrdcomics.com/2011/03/89-new-friend/
| accessdate = 2012-10-06
| passage = And ultimately: I think my readers are mature enough that knowing eir assigned gender is not going to give them an “excuse” to misgender
em .
}}
