Spivak pronoun

English Etymology Named after American mathematician Michael Spivak who used the pronouns en e E, en em Em, and en eir Eir in the 1982 book "The Joy of TeX".The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX Macro Package But I hate having to say "he or she" or "his or her" or using awkward circumlocutions. Numerous approaches to this problem have been suggested, but one strikes me as particularly simple and sensible. Just as 'I' is the first person singular pronoun, regardless of gender, so 'E' will be used in this book as the third person singular pronoun for both genders. Thus, 'E' is the singular of 'they'. Accordingly, 'Eir' (pronounced to rhyme with 'their') will be the possessive, and 'Em' (rhyming with 'them') will stand for either 'him' or 'her'. Michael D. Spivak xi 1982 0821829998 Personal Pronoun Pronouncement https://archive.org/details/joyoftexgourmetg0000spiv/page/n12 1986 American Mathematical Society https://archive.org/details/joyoftexgourmetg0000spiv Spivak did not coin the pronoun set he used in the book.en The Joy of TeX is special in a number of ways. Pronouns are gender-neutral — E, Em, Eir — but even though these are now called “Spivak pronouns”, when I asked, Mike [Michael Spivak] said he didn’t originate them. Barbara Beeton Michael D. Spivak, 1940–2020 TUGboat 226 2021 TeX User Group https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-3/tb132beeton-spivak.pdf 2024-11-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20211118131924/https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-3/tb132beeton-spivak.pdf 42 3 Noun Any of a set of gender-neutral neopronouns occasionally used in English, formerly associated with the LambdaMOO online community. References en eponyms en LGBTQ