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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Any of a set of gender-neutral neopronouns occasionally used in English, formerly associated with the LambdaMOO online community.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Named after American mathematician Michael Spivak who used the pronouns E, Em, and Eir in the 1982 book "The Joy of TeX". Spivak did not coin the pronoun set he used in the book.
