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We've had the same pronoun situation here in Sweden. Recently, however, a new pronoun started to become common in everyday speech: 'hen'. It's a mix of 'han' ('he') and 'hon'('her'). It's picked up in popularity fast since it solves the specific problems highlighted by this article.


Many people have tried similar things in English[1], but unfortunately none have caught on yet outside relatively small subcultures.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Invented...


I'm not sure I'd say "unfortunately"- most of those invented words are, in my eyes, terrible! "Co"? "Zhim"?


And some are, unfortunately, hard to pronounce. (I.e., Sie and Zhe.)


Interestingly enough there is such pronoun in Icelandic - "það".




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