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Emself

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Pronoun
  1. 1
    Em, a gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of em, equivalent to themself (also used for emphasis). gender-neutral, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, rare, reflexive, singular, third-person

    "Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey wouldn't clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And if ey should trip up in the new usage, ey would only have emself to blame."

Etymology

From em + -self, or by removing "th" from themself (cf. also 'emself, 'emselves).

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