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... person plural in Middle English ( ME ) , heo , hie , had been replaced by Scandinavian pei , and by the end of the ME period , they , their , and them were established as English third person plural pronouns . Of special interest is the ...
... person plural in Middle English ( ME ) , heo , hie , had been replaced by Scandinavian pei , and by the end of the ME period , they , their , and them were established as English third person plural pronouns . Of special interest is the ...
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... person plural in Middle English ( ME ) , heo , hie , had been replaced by Scandinavian pei , and by the end of the ME period , they , their , and them were established as English third person plural pronouns . Of special interest is the ...
... person plural in Middle English ( ME ) , heo , hie , had been replaced by Scandinavian pei , and by the end of the ME period , they , their , and them were established as English third person plural pronouns . Of special interest is the ...
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... person " finally dies in line 32 , but not before the writer has revealed to us that he thinks of the word person as [ + male ] . I'm assuming that , as generous readers , we cooperated up to that point by accepting the idea that he ...
... person " finally dies in line 32 , but not before the writer has revealed to us that he thinks of the word person as [ + male ] . I'm assuming that , as generous readers , we cooperated up to that point by accepting the idea that he ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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