Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spivak pronoun

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English

Syllables: spi-vak pro-noun
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a set of gender-neutral neopronouns occasionally used in English, formerly associated with the LambdaMOO online community.

Etymology

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.

Inflected Forms

Spivak pronouns (plural)

Questions

What does spivak pronoun mean?: Any of a set of gender-neutral neopronouns occasionally used in English, formerly associated with the LambdaMOO online community.
Where does spivak pronoun come from?: 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.

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