[lit-ideas] Re: grades & kleenex

  • From: "Michael Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 20:03:21 -0500

No.  Heo picked the berries in the woods and gave them to hir (hire, her,
here).

'Heo' is the word for "she", it was not used for the word "he", except by
some very liberated and ahead of their time Saxons.  Oh, those sexy Saxons!

So get with the program already.

Mike Geary
Bobbe-up-and-doun, TN

"Woot ye nat where ther stant a litel toun
Which that ycleped is Bobbe-up-and-doun,"
                    -- Chaucer,  The Manciple's Prologue




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "andy amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 7:46 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: grades & kleenex


> So if I understand correctly, there was no subjective form of the feminine
pronoun, just the objective?  If so, wouldn't that be the same thing, not to
be able to say she as distinct from he?  Wait, wait, don't tell me.  I got
it.  There was only one form.  She as distinct from her.  So her picked
berries in the woods.  So did him pick berries in the woods too?
>
> I'm being a regular BOME head tonight.
>
> A.A.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hungerford <hh@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: May 7, 2004 1:54 PM
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: grades & kleenex
>
> 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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