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Anu How often do we have to use a gender neutral word? He or She. "We" is gender neutral. So is "you" and I etc. Does a word for "he or she", "he and she" exist? I once heard that an Indo European word for such was "Hu". Any truth to that? Alex Sidline
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they pronoun 2 [singular] used to refer to a person of unspecified sex: ask someone if they could help.
—New Oxford American Dictionary
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Welcome, Alex. Anu seldom posts on this message board. You might want to write to him directly, or await the comments of the many experts here.
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