The Oxford English Dictionary, having succumbed to contemporary gender voodoo, is including gender-neutral words in its latest edition.
You can now misgender someone and rest secure in the knowledge that you have not perpetrated a grammatical atrocity. In your gaol cell.
From here:
It’s a new issue that has proved a modern minefield – as the way we identify ourselves evolves and changes at a rapid rate.
But now The Oxford English Dictionary has introduced gender-neutral words to help us.
Editors said the latest additions were an ‘attempt to grapple’ with the sensitive topic.
These include ‘hir’ and zir’ as alternative pronouns to him, his or her, ‘peoplekind’ rather than mankind, and ‘Latin@’ as a gender-neutral term for someone of either sex from Latin America.
Meanwhile, the verb ‘misgender’ could apply to anyone who unwittingly or intentionally uses a pronoun that is not preferred by the person.
