Pronouns

When _self_ is added to the personal pronouns, as himself, myself, itself, themselves, &c. they are called _compound personal pronouns_, and are used in the nominative or objective case, but not in the possessive. ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

Using short, clipped sentences (dropping articles and pronouns from the beginnings of sentences, creating a weird but powerful effect) VanderMeer tells readers the story of the titular character, a detective in the city of Ambergris as he attempts to solve a double murder of a human and a gray cap. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some trans* people find that getting others to address them by the correct pronouns is difficult enough, but issues of race, gender identity, and sexual orientation frequently trigger a violence against trans* people of colour that the media should not let go unreported. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One of the Dutch second person plural pronouns is “u”. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(You don’t have to worry about awkward switches in pronouns – which CAN get tedious). ❋ Unknown (2009)

It’s something I’ve thought about quite a bit; the deliberate misuse of pronouns is one of the hallmarks of cissexism and a commonly used form of not-so-subtle oppression. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The defence using male pronouns is particularly upsetting it really feels like they’re trampling on everyone’s memories of her. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(In fact, who wasn’t even a relative pronoun until the 15th century.) However, history also showed that the behavior of relative pronouns is constantly changing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He wrote a book “Europe After the Rains” entirely in pronouns. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The pronouns were a bit confused, but Rose and Polly understood. ❋ Amy Brooks (N/A)

The pronouns are the only words which retain the ancient distinctive case ending for the objective. ❋ Joseph Devlin (N/A)

Now if we were to transpose what I must still call the pronouns, although they are not pronouns except when we make them so, we should have — 他爱我 _t'a ai wo_ ❋ Herbert Allen Giles (1890)

They are called pronouns, because they stand for nouns. ❋ Charles Winslow (1861)

Several sources confirmed that the former aide is a young woman, although her name and pronouns that would reveal her sex are blacked out in the heavily edited Pentagon inspector general's report. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Markedness was violated everywhere according to his lavish brand of Proto-Nostratic and even some of the most common words in a normal human language such as pronouns and particles were replete with these articulatorily taxing ejectives. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I sometimes try out my german or French on my workers, and one worker I have constantly mixs pronouns which is sort of jolting for a bit: "This lady you with, he is nice, yes, you been with he a long time, very pretty?" ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2008)