ve.
The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
Meaning & usage
The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).
Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they.
Where this word comes from
First proposed by Philologus in the July 1864 Ladies' Repository, with possessive vis and objective vim, as an alternative to using "he or she," singular they, or one in sentences without a specified gender. In 1970, Varda One proposed ve, vis and objective ver in a feminist article titled "Manglish." Greg Egan used the pronouns throughout the novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).
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