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Definition of 'thons'

English

Adjective

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  • (neologism|archaic) Belonging to thon, their (singular).
  • * {{quote-journal| year = 1889
  • | month = November | title = That Desired Impersonal Pronoun | journal = The Writer | first = C. Crozat | last = Converse | publisher = William H. Hills | city = Boston | volume = 3 | issue = 2 | page = 248 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QQQ-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA248 | passage = Every writer has "thons " verbal likes and dislikes, yet, for the sake of convenience, I trust that even "thon" who dislikes verbal innovations will give my little word a little trial and note for me the result. }}
  • * {{quote-journal| year = 1895
  • | month = July | title = The New Pronoun | journal = The Public-School Journal | publisher = Public-School Publishing Co. | city = Bloomington | volume = 14 | issue = 11 | page = 613 | quotee = The Lynchburg Record | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=3fkBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA613 | passage = I hope that each student will have learned thons algebra lesson perfectly this morning. }}
  • * {{quote-book| year = 1895
  • | title = Outlines of Psychology | first = Henry Graham | last = Williams | publisher = C. W. Bardee | location = Syracuse | edition = 3rd | page = 5 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_BEAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5 | passage = Every student should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively correlate the facts of thons knowledge. }}

    Synonyms

    * (singular) their * (neologism) hir

    Hyponyms

    * his, her

    See also

    * other gender-neutral pronouns English third person pronouns ----