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From: koch@piston.DEC (Kevin Koch LTN1-2/B17 DTN229-6274)
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Subject: Pronouns devoid of gender connotations
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 09:01:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 17 09:01:24 1985
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>      ... on the problem of what word to use to refer to a person of 
> unknown gender. ... I don't think any of those solutions is the way to go.  
> Instead, I think a new word is in order. ... My nomination?  "Zhe."
> (The zh is pronounced like the z in azure) 
> 
> Example:  If a person saw an automobile accident, what should zhe do? 

     The English language has had *precisely* the word you are looking
for for hundreds of years now.  Its use sounds no more or less stilted
than your proposed new word.  It is 'one.' 

"If one saw an automobile accident, what should one do?"