Perceived linguistic gaps in English, and efforts to fill them

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Excellent link to that epicene pronoun list. And as a wordie you have to love his little confession at the bottom: "Please send additions and corrections to me at the Department of English, Univ. of Illinois."

Interesting discussions at the OUP blog:

http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/pronoun/
http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/aught/

Assorted suggestions for an epicene third-person pronoun are taken from the list at

list of historical suggestions for a third-person epicene pronoun

Great idea for a list, sionnach! I'm thinking....