[lit-ideas] Re: grades & kleenex
- From: Harold Hungerford <hh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 10:54:47 -0700
No. it isn't. There has been a "feminine pronoun" since the earliest
written records, and certainly before that. What your source might have
said is that "she" came into use in the twelfth century, replacing the
earlier "heo." The earliest citation for "she" in the Oxford English
Dictionary is dated 1154.
Harold Hungerford
On May 7, 2004, at 5:01 AM, andy amago wrote:
I read someplace that the feminine pronoun didn't exist until I can't
remember what century. Is that correct?
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