#xy & zee

[rwpohl]

the brutalist, brady corbet 2024

[darugodream]

The real downfall of Pokemon began when Z didn't come out. Finally, this doomed timeline we live in is being corrected.

[magpiejay1234]

While browsing I found these really cool older concepts for the Pokéani XY(Z) cast by lemolee.

Clemont is the funniest to me, because I don't think he would accept looking like his dad.

Miette is the second funniest because of the Zoey colour scheme, and 80s hair.

[reallycool12345]

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[danielpico]

XY and Zee (1972)

[kimmysiops]

I'M BEYOND PROUD OF THESE PEOPLE.

I'm so proud of you, Kimmy! Sobrang dami mong pinagdaanan this year. Proud na proud ako sa‘yo! Grabe, nakayanan mo ‘yun?! Be stronger pa ha, you'll face more problems and traumas pa pero alam kong kakayanin mo. (Wala kang choice gago) You have to be strong for yourself, for your special ones. Kimpot will always cheer for you, Kimmy.

I'm so proud of you, ate Zee! Nakita ko kung paano ka umiyak, tumawa, mag trabaho, maglaro lahat lahat. Sabi ko nga sa‘yo, kahit na ano pang gawin mo proud ako sa‘yo kahit manood lang ng Tulfo ‘yan o ng nag e-embalsamo sa YouTube, ganyan kita ka-mahal teh! You deserve all the love and happiness in this world. I wish you nothing but the very best in life (especially lovelife🤞🏻) Nakita natin ‘yung growth ng isa‘t isa. Grabe, konti nalang mabubuo mo na teenage years ko😭 Thank you for making each year memorable. You don't know how lucky and grateful I am to have you in my life. Thank you so much for staying with me, ate Z. I love you so much! More years to ussss!

I'm so proud of you, ate Clang! I saw how cruel the world is to you:( I'm so proud of you for being brave. Please, sa 2024 stop being a people pleaser haaa. Ang pure mong tao to the point na kahit ako hindi mo deserve and I'm so sorry about it. Thank you for making my 2023 happy and memorable. Thank you for being there, ALWAYS. I love you so much, ate Clang!

I'm so proud of you, Mabel! Halos kalahati na ng taon nung nakilala kita ulit. Kahit sa maigsing panahon na ‘yun, naging sobrang proud ako sa‘yo. I'm sorry kung ganito ka cruel ‘yung mundo sa‘yo ah. I swear I'm trying na maging ate rin sa‘yo kaso masyado akong mahiyain for that. I miss you so much, Mabol:( Palagi lang akong nandito para sa‘yo. I love you!

I'm so proud of you, Ly! Alam kong hindi mo ‘to mababasa kaya push ko na ‘to. Grabe pag s-suffer mo this year:( Kung kaya ko lang kuhanin ‘yung iba dun to help you and make you feel better. Sobrang proud ako na nakayanan mo lahat ‘yun! Thank you for being there. Thank you sa lahat lahat. Hindi mo alam kung gaano ako ka-grateful na mayroon akong ikaw. Napagaan mo nang sobra ‘yung buhay ko ‘teh! I love you so much, my Copy-Ed! I'm always here for you, alam mo ‘yan.

I'm so proud of you, Mikmik! You are one of the strongest people I know. Lagi mong tatandaan na ate is always here for you ha (kahit na ikaw laging nag a-act na ate sa‘ting dalawa). Kahit na gaano ka ka-random at ka-iritang tao, love na love pa rin kita. Huwag mo masyadong lunurin sarili mo sa acads, napapabayaan mo sarili mo eh. You are one of the best partners I've ever had. I love you, pookie bear ko!

I'm so proud of you, Anyel ko! Grabe pang ta-tarantado ng mga tao sa‘yo ngayong taon:( I'm so proud of you for being brave. Kinaya mo!!! Kakayanin mo pa rin ‘yung mga susunod. Lagi lang akong nandito para sa‘yo, kahit tatawagan mo lang ako para umiyak, magpa-antok, sasamahan pa rin kita kahit anong oras pa ‘yan. I love you so much, baby ko!

I'm so proud of my girlies! Sama sama tayong naghirap simula nung grade 9 hanggang 10. Thankful ako na kayo ‘yung nakasama ko. Thank you for making those days memorable. Naging worth it naman lahat ng paghihirap at iyak natin. Hindi ako showy sa inyo pero love na love ko kayong tatlo.

I'm so proud of you, my Ali, Eun, and Xy! Ginanern ba naman ng lovelife😓 Pero ang strong niyo, kahit na ilang heart break naranasan niyo sa lovelife hindi kayo natatakot na magmahal pa rin genuinely. Ang swerte ko sa inyo. I miss you all so much! I love you all!

Last but not the least, my mami and dadi!

I'm so proud of you, mami! Idol na idol talaga kita this year mi, nakita ko ‘yung hirap mo sa araw araw:( Thank you for doing that for us. I'm really sorry kung minsan nakakaramdam ako ng pain from u or sainyo ni dadi, believe me ayaw ko naman po talaga maramdaman e. Sobrang brave mo mami! Sana kaya ko rin maging ganyan:( I love you so so much, mami! Mag i-ingat ka po palagi ha, babawi po ako sainyo promise.

I'm so proud of you, dadi! Nakaka-proud po ‘yung sipag na mayroon kayo ni mami. Sorry po ulit ha. Promise po, hindi ko sasayangin ‘yung pagod niyo ni mami para sa‘min. I love you, dadi! Ingat ka po palagi ha. I love you so much, dadi! Babawi ako sainyo, promise.

[yeoldotcom]

whatever bro reality isn't even real i just had 500 calories worth of fruit roll-ups

[poisnedartist]

Here's Z and his friends Xyment and Toreek (She aggressively suggests you use "Claire" though). I was drawing this picture in between other drawings and ran out of ink in my pen so I couldn't outline the others.

[skulls-and-snakes]

My neopronouns

(pronunciations in parentheses)

voi/void/voids/voidself

xe/xem/xyr/xemself (zee/zem/zer or zeer)

vy/vym/vyr/vymself (vee/vim/veer)

xy/xym/xyr/xymself (zee/zim/zer or zeer)

ze/zem/zyr/zemself (zee/zem/zer or zeer)

[vincentmethinks]

I've just made Xy this angry, bloodthirsty wolf(in a metaphorical sense) and I actually love it

Her nickname is pronounced Zee because that's how her name used to be pronounced(Zee-lee-ah) but I changed it to Zai-lee-ah

Shes actually quite rich

Shes also out for Spike's blood because of reasons

[siibilant]

HC: Xyriis is pronounced as Zeer-eese, with the nickname Xy sounding simply like Zee.

[neopronounsmybelovaed]

Part three under the cut

the cat/the cat

the catboy/the catboys

the dog/the dog

the goat/the goats

the watcher/its

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thing/thing

this one/that one

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write/write

www./www.

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xae/xem

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zx/zxr

zy/zy

zy/zyn

þe/þim

þey/þem

þhee/þhim

π/πs

ꙮ/ꙮ

Neopronouns- Full List

All of the neopronouns found on the survey. All of them.

Part one under the cut

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abstra/abstract

abyss/abysmal

abyss/abyss

ace/ace

ae/ae

ae/aem

ae/aer

ae/aether

ael/ael

aeon/aeon

aerixa/aerixae

aethr/aethrs

af/afself

agri/agrius

ai/ai

ai/aim

ai/ain

al/ala

al/allium

ala/alum

alien/alien

all/alls

alli/allium

alt/alter

an/anself

Andromeda/Andromeda's

ang/angel

angel/angel

anny/andro

another/anotherself

ant/ant

ap/aps

aqua/aquas

ar/ars

ar/arso

arcade/arcadeself

arcade/arcem

arcane/arcane

arch/archer

aro/aroself

arson/arsons

art/artself

ast/aster

astro/astroself

ato/atom

au/aur

au/auti

autumn/autumnal

ax/axo

axo/lotl

az/az

azu/azur

ba/bat

baa/baa

bam/bang

ban/ana

ban/banner

bard/bards

bark/bark

bast/bastard

bat/bat

be/berry

be/rym

bea/bea

bea/bead

bea/beam

bead/bead

bean/beans

bear/bears

beau/beaus

beauty/beautys

bee/bee

bee/bem

bell/bell

bendy/bendy

ber/berry

berr/berry

berry/berries

bet/bets

bey/bem

bid/bids

bim/bim

bir/birds

bit/bit

bit/bite

bite/bite

bl/blue

bla/blade

black/black

blade/blades

blank/blank

blast/blast

blip/blip

blo/bloom

bloo/blood

bloo/blook

blood/bloods

blook/blooky

bloom/bloom

bloop/blooper

blrrp/blrrrps

blu/blu

blu/blue

blu/blur

blue/blue

blur/blurs

blush/blushs

bo/boar

bo/bole

bo/bolt

bo/bon

bo/bone

bo/bos

bog/bog

bomb/bomb

bon/bone

bon/bonk

bon/bons

bone/boneself

bonk/bonk

boo/boo

book/book

boom/boom

boop/boops

bop/beep

bork/bark

bot/bots

boun/bounce

boy/boy

brack/bracken

brain/brains

bread/breadself

breeze/breeze

bri/bright

bright/brightself

bro/bros

bu/buck

bu/buzz

bub/bubble

bubble/bubble

buck/buck

bug/bug

bumble/bee

bun/bun

bun/bunny

bun/bunz

bunnydog/bunnydog

burn/burns

buzz/buzz

byte/byte

ca/can

ca/cand

ca/care

ca/catta

ca/nine

cae/caer

cake/cakeself

calm/calms

cand/candied

candel/candel

candi/candiself

candle/candles

candy/candie

candy/candy

cap/tain

card/cards

care/cares

cat/catboy

cat/cats

cat/nip

catboy/catboy

catdog/catdog

caw/caw

caw/crow

ce/cedar

ce/cem

ce/cer

ce/cir

ce/lai

cel/celes

cel/celest

cel/cem

cha/chase

chae/chane

chai/chaim

chai/chain

champ/ion

chao/chaos

chaos/chaos

chaotic/chaoticself

chat/chatter

chem/chemic

cher/chers

cherry/cherries

chet/chets

chev/chevalier

chew/chew

chi/chime

chi/chir

chi/chirp

chir/chirp

chirp/chirps

cho/choco

cho/chos

chocolate/chocolate

chomp/chomps

chor/chorus

chord/chord

chron/chrono

chrrp/chrrps

ci/ciph

ci/cipher

ci/circ

cie/cier

cin/cinna

cinna/cinnas

cit/rys

citru/citrus

cla/claw

clemen/tine

cli/click

click/clicks

clink/clink

clo/clos

clo/cloud

clo/clove

clock/clocks

clot/clots

cloud/cloud

clow/cloud

clow/clow

clown/clown

co/cem

co/coal

co/cobble

co/cocoa

co/code

co/coin

co/con

co/copy

co/cos

co/cotton

co/ney

cocoa/cocoa

coffee/coffeeself

cog/cog

coi/coin

coin/coin

cola/colas

color/colors

com/comfort

com/comi

com/rade

comb/comb

comfy/comfys

comrade/comrade

con/cons

con/contract

coo/cookie

coo/coos

cookie/cookies

🆒/🆒

cor/cord

cor/corpse

cor/corv

cor/corvid

core/core

corp/corpse

cos/cos

cotton/candy

crackle/crackle

craft/craft

cre/creature

cre/creme

cream/puff

creature/creatureself

crick/et

cringe/cringeself

cro/crow

cro/crown

crow/crown

crow/crows

crown/crown

cru/crumb

crum/crumb

crun/crunch

cry/cryp

cry/crys

cryp/cryps

cryp/crypt

crypt/cryptic

crypt/cryptid

crypt/crypts

cryptid/cryptids

cryst/crystal

cub/cub

cube/cubes

cup/cake

cup/cups

curse/curseself

cut/cuts

cute/cute

cy/cyb

cy/kes

cyc/cyclo

da/damned

da/dan

dae/daem

dae/daer

dae/dark

dae/death

dahlia/dahliaself

dai/daim

dai/daisy

damp/damp

dar/dark

dar/darling

dark/darker

dark/darks

data/data

dawn/dawns

dawn/dusk

day/enu

daze/daze

de/cay

de/decay

de/dem

de/demon

de/dew

de/dim

de/mon

dea/dead

dea/death

dead/dead

death/deaths

decay/decay

dei/deim

dei/deity

deity/deity

dem/demise

dem/demon

demon/demons

den/den

deox/deox

des/despair

des/pai

detect/detect

dex/dexself

dey/dem

di/devi

di/dice

di/dip

di/div

dia/dem

diamond/diamonds

did/div

die/dies

dino/dino

dino/saur

dip/dipp

dir/dirt

dirt/dirt

disc/disc

disc/discord

discord/discords

div/divs

divine/divineself

do/doe

doggy/doggy

dol/doldrum

doll/doll

doom/day

dora/doras

dorm/dormi

dot/dot

dra/drag

drae/draer

dragon/dragons

dre/dream

dread/dreadself

dream/dreams

dream/dreamy

dree/drem

drop/drip

drowse/drowse

dsic/discord

du/dusk

dude/dudeself

duke/dukes

dus/dust

dusk/dusk

dust/dusts

e/em

e/er

e/es

e/fe

e/im

e/ver

earth/earths

ec/echo

ech/echo

echo/echos

ee/eel

ee/vees

eev/eevs

eevee/eevees

egg/eggy

el/eld

el/elk

el/els

el/stel

eld/eld

elle/stelle

elm/elm

em/er

ember/ember

emo/emos

empty/empty

en/by

en/en

en/end

en/enter

en/entity

end/ended

end/ender

end/ends

ender/enders

endo/endos

eni/enis

entity/entity

eon/eon

er/ero

eri/eri

error/error

eso/esos

esp/espi

et/et

etc/etcs

etern/eternity

eth/eth

ether/ethereal

eu/euch

ev/ever

ev/evil

eve/evil

ex/extra

exe/exe

ey/em

ey/eye

eye strain/eye strain

eye/eyes

eyn/eyn

f/fself

fade/fades

fae/fae

fae/faem

fae/faer

fae/fake

fae/fem

faery/faery

fai/fairy

fairy/fairy

fall/fallen

fang/fang

fang/fangz

far/farce

fate/fates

faun/faun

fawn/fawn

fay/fay

fe/fel

feath/feather

feather/feathers

fee/fi

fel/feli

fel/fels

fen/fen

fer/fern

feral/feral

fern/fern

ferret/ferrets

fey/fern

fey/feyr

fi/fir

fi/fire

fic/fiction

fie/fire

fin/fins

fir/fir

fish/fish

five/fiveself

fiz/fiz

fizz/fizz

fizz/fizzy

fl/flu

fla/flame

fla/flare

flame/flame

flar/flareon

flare/flares

fle/flesh

fleur/fleur

fleur/fleurn

fli/flight

fli/flit

flick/flicker

flo/float

flo/flor

flo/flower

floccinaucinihilipilification/floccinaucinihilipilification

flow/flows

flower/flowers

fluff/fluff

fo/ster

fog/fog

fool/fools

for/forest

four/fours

fox/fox

fra/frost

fre/fir

freak/freak

fri/fri

friend/friends

fro/frog

fro/fronds

frog/frogself

fru/fruit

fruit/fruit

fu/fuzz

fuck/fucker

fuck/you

fun/fun

funeral/funeral

fungi/fungiself

fur/furs

fuz/fuzz

fuzz/fuzz

fy/fyre

fyr/fyr

g/gself

ga/gal

ga/game

ga/me

gala/galaxy

galaxy/galax

gall/gallant

gam/gamble

game/gameboy

game/games

gas/gases

gaso/gasoline

ge/geist

ge/gem

gear/gear

gem/gem

gender/gender

germ/germs

ghast/ghastself

[gendercensus]

The Big Pronouns Survey - results

This survey ran from 19th August until today, 26th August - one week. There were 2,686 participants after I removed a joke submission and a couple of duplicates, which I think is not too shabby!

There were three things I was looking for:

How popular pronoun sets are;

Common word choices and spellings, plural/singular verbs;

How people tend to gender the sets.

You can see the original responses and the various calculations and ranking tables here (Google Sheets).

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MOTIVATION

This was probably the most complicated survey I’ve run so far just in terms of structure. I had to place a lot of limitations on what people could enter for each question, so there were fewer “other ________” answers than I usually like to provide.

I’ve been wanting to ask about pronouns more accurately for a long time, because in the annual survey of language for nonbinary people I simply list the most popular pronoun sets and then provide a single box called “other” for people to write in sometimes multiple sets of neopronouns. This means that I have to sort through entries like this:

xe, xem

xe/xem/xyr

ze/zem/zeir

ze, v, per, etc.

... and so on. It is really time-consuming and exhausting to separate and group the pronouns to count them accurately, and that’s because there is not one uniform way of presenting your pronoun set. Even if there were, people would assume I know what they meant by “xe/xem”, they might just be lazy, they might not know the “official” way to use the pronouns and leave words out, and probably there are a hundred other ways in which humans are thankfully not computer programs!

This survey was an attempt to get more helpful and accurate information about pronoun preferences overall, as well as about individual pronoun sets and their use.

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THE SURVEY

The survey began with a compulsory question that asked you to confirm that your gender was in some way not binary M/F.

It then asked for your general pronoun preference:

Any pronouns are fine

Avoid all pronouns

I have some kind of pronoun preference, strong or mild

If you selected “any” or “avoid”, you were sent to the end of the survey, to save you being asked about your pronouns when you had none or didn’t care.

If you selected I have a preference, you were sent to the section that lets you enter your pronouns. You could enter up to five sets. For each pronoun, you were given five sentences to complete, plus a couple of extra questions.

"Ask Sam if ______ would like to buy a newspaper." (Eg: he, she, they)

"Sam bought the newspaper so now it belongs to _____." (Eg: him, her, them)

"Sam is reading _____ newspaper." (Eg: his, her, their)

"Whose newspaper is it?" "It belongs to Sam, it's _____." (Eg: his, hers, theirs)

"Sam bought it for _____." (Eg: himself, herself)

There was an explanation of what pronouns are at the top of the page. Each sentence had a few examples underneath it from the he/him, she/her and they/them sets, with one exception - I left “themself/themselves” out of the reflexive question because I wanted to see whether people generally preferred “themself” or “themselves” when talking about one person and I didn’t want to influence their response at all.

There was a question to find out whether the pronoun set uses plural verbs or singular verbs, because I wanted to know whether people usually say, for example, “xe is” or “xe are”. Consider:

he is a teacher - is is singular, so he/him uses singular verbs.

they are a teacher - are is plural, so they/them uses plural verbs.

And then there was a question to ask how people generally tend to gender this pronoun set. The choices were masculine, feminine, nonbinary, inclusive, or “only I can use it”.

At the end of each pronoun set participants were given the option to enter another set or skip to the end. If someone entered more than one set, they were given some checkboxes that they could check if it applied to them:

Pronoun preference tends to change depending on context

I want people to vary which pronoun they use for me frequently

I have a consistent favourite pronoun

And then there was a feedback box at the end.

I considered providing some of the more common pronoun sets pre-written for people to select, but decided against it. I wanted to see what people wrote when given empty text boxes. In the annual survey any pronoun that is pre-written will get more people choosing it just because it’s right there. Having it pre-written removes a barrier, and it means people who would not normally consider that pronoun set are prompted to do so; both of these things increases the number of people choosing it.

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HOW POPULAR WERE THE PRONOUN SETS?

When reduced to the first two pronouns in each set it looks something like this:

they/them: 1,952 - 73%

he/him: 488 - 18%

she/her: 321 - 12%

use any pronouns: 294 - 11%

avoid pronouns: 131 - 5%

it/it: 58 - 2%

xe/xem: 57 - 2%

ey/em: 52 - 2%

fae/faer: 25 - 0.9%

ze/zir: 20 - 0.7% // ze/hir: 20 - 0.7%

(Since this was specifically marketed as a survey about pronouns, I expect that “any” and “avoid” options were underrepresented because potential participants with no preference or who dislike pronouns for themselves would be less likely to open the survey in the first place. But that’s just speculation!)

The top ten looks a little different when you include more than the first two pronouns of a set, because after the first two there tended to be more divergence in words and spellings.

A good illustration is the set “xe/xem,” which more than doubles in popularity when you take into account more variations of that pronoun than just the most popular. I’m not suggesting for a second that all “xe/xem” sets are ultimately the same, but I did want to show that a slight difference in spelling radically changes how your write-in pronoun is counted in this survey and in the annual survey. A pronoun set that seems quite popular outside of statistics could seem less popular in surveys simply because a lot of people use it slightly differently, due to regional differences and personal preference and so on.

To put it another way, here were all the unique sets beginning with “n” that were entered, most of which begin with a “knee” sound:

ne/nem/nir/nirs/nemself (singular verbs) - 7

ne/nem/nir/nirs/nirself (singular verbs) - 3

ne/nir/nim/nir/nirs/nirself (singular verbs) - 1

ne/nim/nir/nirs/nimself (singular verbs) - 1

ne/nem/neir/neirs/nemself (singular verbs) - 1

ne/nis/nis/nis/nimself (singular verbs) - 1

ne/nym/nyms/nyms/nymself (singular verbs) - 1

ne/nem/nis/nis/nemself (singular verbs) - 1

ne/nir/nir/nirs/nirself (singular verbs) - 1

ne/nim/nir/nis/nimself (singular verbs) - 1

ni/ne/nem/nir/nirs/nemself (singular verbs) - 1

nin/nim/nims/nims/ninself (singular verbs) - 1

ny/nym/nys/nys/nymself (singular verbs) - 1

The only thing they have in common is that they are all used with singular verbs: “Ne is a teacher. Ne has a small class today.”

If you just count the most popular it’s 7, but that’s less than half of people claiming pronouns that start with “ne”, so it’s a very limited picture.

Part of what I like to ask in the annual survey is if we are ever approaching any kind of consensus on the more popular neopronoun sets. Do people generally agree on spelling or even on the words themselves? And after several years, I can confirm that the answer is basically no. For most neopronouns, 50% of people or more are using different words in sets that start with the same word. Some sets appear to sound the same but have very different spellings, such as xe/xir and ze/zir. Speaking anecdotally, some sets are spelled the same way but pronounced differently by different people - some people pronounce “xy/xyr” as “zee/zeer” and some “zye/zyer”, for example.

These will settle over time. If neopronouns become more used and people become more fluent when using new sets, the spelling and pronunciation will converge in the more common sets first. I’m thinking that language coagulates with frequent and earnest use.

There were a lot of people taking part who spoke English as a second language, a lot of typos, and a lot of people using unique tricks to circumvent this:

That’s a validation rule to prevent people writing sentences. In the test surveys, people would sometimes write the pronoun, and then an explanation or an alternative, such as “xe or ze”, or “xe but on my girl days I prefer she”. I love those elaborations but this time I needed extremely simple data so that I could process it using spreadsheet queries!

So a lot of the unique pronoun sets entered probably could have been more accurately grouped with others. There were 367 unique pronoun sets entered altogether taking into account verb preferences, which is a new pronoun set for every 7 people. I enjoyed the ones like “he/they/he/they/his/their/his/theirs/himself/themself (singular verbs)”, but this one is my favourite for pure ingenuity:

[x]ey_xey_or_yey_or_zey/[x]em_or_xem_or_yem_or_zem/[x]eir_or_xeir_or_yeir_or_zeir/[x]eirs_or_xeirs_or_yeirs_or_zeirs/[x]eirself_or_xeirself_or_yeirself_or_zeirself (plural verbs)

That’s five sets combined into one. Each of these could have been entered separately, so it’s possible that the form was somehow not clear or that it was misinterpreted. I did write in a couple of places that you’d be able to enter up to five pronoun sets, and at the end of each pronoun set you had to select “enter another set” or “skip to the end”, so perhaps this is just one set with many interchangeable options? Perhaps they were trying to communicate that each of these sets is equal with no favourite? Or perhaps the participant was just trying to save time. Are xey sad that xeir sets were counted only once together instead of being grouped individually with matching sets?

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POPULAR VERB PREFERENCES

Folks expressed an interest in knowing which “they/them” sets are more common. There were 88 unique sets entered starting with “they”, and here’s how many people chose the ones entered ten times or more:

they/them/their/theirs/themself (plural verbs) - 1,445

they/them/their/theirs/themselves (plural verbs) - 278

they/them/their/theirs/theirself (plural verbs) - 60

they/them/their/theirs/themself (singular verbs) - 22

they/them/their/theirs/himself (plural verbs) - 16

they/them/their/theirs/ (plural verbs) - 15

they/them/their/theirs/them (plural verbs) - 13

they/them/their/their's/themself (plural verbs) - 11

“Themself” was five times as popular as “themselves”, and plural verbs (”they are”) were overwhelmingly more common than singular (”they is”).

Pretty much everything else was singular verbs, including sets that sound a little bit like or rhyme with or are based on they/them:

ey/em/eir/eirs/emself (singular verbs) - 1%

fae/faer/faer/faers/faerself (singular verbs) - 0.6%

ae/aer/aer/aers/aerself (singular verbs) - 0.4%

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PREFERENCES FOR MULTIPLE PRONOUN SETS

841 people (31% of all participants) entered more than one pronoun set. Here’s how they wanted people to use those pronouns out of an incomplete list of preferences, of which participants could select more than one or none at all:

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HOW DO PEOPLE TEND TO GENDER THE PRONOUN SETS?

For this step I used just the first two words in each pronoun set, and did some colour-coding with conditional formatting.

The darker the box, the higher the percentage. Any grey "0%” on the right are answers where no one chose that option at all, and the black “0%” are positive numbers that have been rounded down, such as “0.1%”. Percentages are of the people who claimed that pronoun, not of the entire population surveyed.

Here’s a bit of a summary:

They/them was considered the most inclusive, and the least “nonbinary” of anything other than he/him or she/her.

He/him was overwhelmingly considered masculine, and she/her was overwhelmingly considered feminine.

People were more likely to characterise he/him as inclusive or nonbinary, and less likely to characterise it as masculine or feminine, compared to she/her. This might account for people being 6% more likely to be okay with he/him overall? This might also be influenced by the style guide push in recent decades for he/him to be the standard non-gendered pronoun when talking about someone of unknown gender. “Masculine as neutral” is a prevalent stance even among nonbinary people, anecdotally speaking, with feminine still being seen as a deviation from a masculine default, and the statistics here reflect that. It could also be influenced by gender assigned at birth, which I didn’t ask about.

I note that the results for he/him and she/her are quite different from the annual survey’s usual pattern. Here he/him was 6% more popular than she/her, whereas in the annual survey (which has pre-written options for the pronoun question) the two are more similar, sometimes getting the same percentage when rounded to the nearest whole number. Checking a box is much easier than having to type in a whole set and then answer questions about it, so perhaps people who are okay with she/her don’t like it enough to type it out?

Of all the pronouns other than he, she and they - only two pronouns were ever considered binary gendered. It/it was gendered masculine by 2% of people who use it (but never feminine), and fae/faer was gendered feminine by 12% of people (but never masculine).

The pronoun set that was considered most nonbinary-exclusive (used for nonbinary people, and not anyone else) was xe/xem.

A huge 29% of participants who chose it/it said that it/it could only be used for them. Originally this answer option was intended for people whose neopronouns were based on their names or otherwise exclusive to them, but I think perhaps what people were trying to express here was “this is not a pronoun you can use for just anyone.” When I’ve heard people talking about it/it pronouns, folks tend to be very blunt and up-front about the fact that a lot of people find it/it upsetting, it’s often used to insult or dehumanise visibly trans people, etc. So folks using this pronoun are perhaps warning others to be very careful about how to use this pronoun - but that’s purely speculation.

If we were going to extract a “nonbinary pronoun” from this data (as if he/him was a masculine pronoun and she/her was a feminine pronoun), it would be xe/xem. The most common use of this pronoun was:

xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself (singular verbs)

This is Sam. Xe is a teacher. Xyr daughter often gets a ride to school with xem, though sometimes when she’s sick Sam drives to work by xemself. If Jenny leaves her lunch in the car by accident... well, that lunch is xyrs now!

It’s worth mentioning, though, that this pronoun set as it’s written above was only entered by 22 people - less than 1% of >2,500 nonbinary participants. Almost 1 in 4 participants preferred some form of singular they/them, most of them preferring “themself” rather than “themselves”, and plural verbs.

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TINY PERSONAL RANT

I’m going to take this opportunity to say that plural verbs are not weird. You already use plural verbs when talking to/about individuals all the time. They do not mean that you’re talking about more than one person, nor is it grammatically incorrect. Regardless of how old they/them is and how many famous writers have used it and whether or not they were right to do so, if you always say “you are” and you never say “you is” even when you are talking to one person, complaining about singular they but not singular you is a double standard.

If you’re reading this then you probably already know that. ;)

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CONCLUSION

I ran this survey to get more accurate information about pronoun preferences and pronoun sets, and I think I succeeded! I find the results interesting and helpful. I hope it’s interesting to others too, and I am really grateful to everyone who took part and helped to promote the survey.

I’m not sure whether I will run a pronouns-only survey like this again, but I may incorporate something like it into the annual survey. It made counting pronoun sets so much easier.

Thank you everyone!

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SUPPORT?

If you like what I do and you want to express some gratitude, please consider checking out my Amazon wishlist!

And if you liked how you were asked about your pronouns, you might be interested to see Starfriends - it’s a truly gender-inclusive social network that me and @par-la-fenetre have been playing with, that actually collects and uses your neopronouns properly omg.

[ziamfanfiction]

Barebacking please with bottom zee xxxxxx

sure :D

Choices Like Waves ( has top zayn but bottom zayn too)

Don't Stop

Eager

Weight

I'm Glad You Did

Don't Speak

Zayn XY

The Weekend

Play Crack the Sky (anxiety tw)

fighting like hell for you

Say Please

So fluorescent under these lights

Pillowtalk

it's my right to be hellish, I still get jealous

Out of Your League

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Vancouver’s Monarchs: Emperor and Empress of the 46th Reign

Image courtesy of GayVan.com

By Angus Praught

The Dogwood Monarchist Society, Imperial Sovereign Court of the Dogwood Empire, The Mother Court of Canada, is responsible for the annual election of the Emperor and Empress of Vancouver, and for producing the most glamourous night on Vancouver’s drag calendar, the spectacular Coronation Ball.

Celebrating forty-six years in 2017, The Dogwood Monarchist Society (DMS) has a fascinating history, as well as membership in the International Imperial Court System (IICS), one of the oldest and largest LGBTQ2+ organizations on the planet. Canada’s Imperial Court System, established originally by the Empress of Canada, the late ted northe, now includes chapters across the country, from Halifax to Vancouver.  The IICS encompasses over eighty cities in Canada, the USA, and Mexico, and each chapter is a legal, non-profit organization, with a mandate to raise funds for charity in its region, overseen by a board of directors.

Image courtesy of GayVan.com

Even before Hanns Ebenstein organized his first exclusively gay tours in 1973, monarchs were traveling to each other’s cities to attend their respective coronations, in a way making them the first (unintentional) LGBTQ2+ travel pioneers. Fast forward to 2017, and there is a substantial volume of travel being booked each year, as the 80+ courts travel to destinations across the continent, year-round. Notice a hotel lobby full of glittering gowns, dazzling crowns, impressive bouffants, and the drop-dead gorgeous milling about; chances are that you’ve arrived at the host hotel for the coronation ball.

Vancouver is where it all began in Canada, and we were fortunate to be able to have an up-close and personal chat with the current reigning monarchs, Emperor XLVI Tommy D, and Empress XLVI Jane Smokr, who reveal a little bit of what goes on behind the scenes, and what’s in store for the 46th Reign.

Angus Praught: Hello Jane and Tommy. First off, congratulations on being elected Emperor and Empress for the 46th Reign!

AP: Can you tell us a bit about yourselves and your roles with the Dogwood Monarchist Society?

Tommy D and Jane Smokr | Image courtesy of GayVan.com

JANE: Well yes, I’ve been doing drag for about five and a half years now. I’m originally from New Westminster, born and raised Jehovah’s Witness, turned gay, turned drag queen, turned Cobalt queen; my roots are in East Van, through and through. Then I ventured into the downtown/West End scene, won [Vancouver’s] Next Drag Superstar, while on a steady incline in drag, and most recently before becoming Empress, had my own monthly and weekly show, had my own book of my own selfies, had my own song, did a little bit of acting, and basically covered all the bases in drag that a drag queen would want to do. So the next step for me in Vancouver was to do something a little bit beyond being just about me, and that came in the form of running for Empress. Past Empresses encouraged me to run, I discussed it with Tommy to see if he would run with me, he agreed, and so we did it, and here we are.

TOMMY: Hi, I’m Tommy, I was born and raised in North Burnaby, and I was not a Jehovah’s Witness (chuckles). Basically my history in the gay community is that I’m a promoter, I’ve been a promoter for over ten years, started doing one night a year, which turned into hosting club nights for venues and stuff, and then I purchased the rights and trademark to an event called Rapture, which is the biggest dance party on Pride weekend. I then built a company around that, doing DJ shows, and from that Ru Paul’s Drag Race, [I] was the first person in Canada to book one of the girls, Nina Flowers, and then that just completely snowballed. From that I started working with OUTtv more, and now have two shows on OUTtv, one’s a talk show, one’s a reality show, and now (pause) I’M THE KING OF ALL GAYS! (Laughs.) Just be sure to put a little wink at the end of all that! (Laughs.)

The late ted northe, Empress of Canada | Image courtesy of GayVan.com

AP: Can you talk about whom or what inspired you to run for Emperor and Empress?

JANE: As I mentioned before, I am close with and was encouraged by past Empresses; Jaylene is my drag mother, and Carlotta and Joan-E and others were so supportive of me as a brand-new drag queen back in 2012, they took me under their wing, booked me for their shows and were very kind to me. They taught me about their pasts, as Empresses, and taught me all about the DMS, and pretty much pegged me as a good candidate to do it, one day, and it all just sort of fell into place. The younger generation here in Vancouver are also followers of mine, because of my shows and my type of drag, so maybe this would be a cool thing to turn the DMS into a younger, more hip thing, through me and Tommy. That whole idea sounded like a pretty cool thing to me.

TOMMY: So, I never wanted to be Emperor, ever; never ever, ever, ever, ever, and add 23 more times (laughs)! I was involved with the DMS for two years a long time ago, and then I just sort of pulled out of it. Then every year around coronation time, you always get that itch, where everyone is saying “maybe next year I’ll do it” and then this past year, Jane said “why don’t we just do it”? For me, the first thing was, I don’t want Jane to have a bad partner going into this, and have to do all the work, and the more we talked about it, and getting ready to put the application in, it was OMG, this is something I totally want to do; no, something I WANT to do, something I NEED to do! So for me, it was Jane who was my main inspiration.

AP: Once elected, you have a whole exciting year ahead of you. Part of a monarch’s mandate is to raise funds for charity. What are your charities of choice this year?

JANE: We have four; we’re being very ambitious, usually we do three, three or less. We’ve chosen Health Initiative for Men, Rainbow Refugee, Women Against Violence Against Women, and Zee Zee Theatre.

AP: How do you plan to raise funds?

TOMMY: Going into this year, we both already had steady followings with shows, so it was kind of unchartered territory. Jane had this great idea to do fundraisers for the DMS at all of our shows, and pretty much at all the shows in the city. There is something going on pretty much every day of the week; there’s Faux Girls once a month at The Junction, we have Monarch that happens at XY, which is our home bar, Jane has Generations, where she puts an old monarch on stage with a new queen, and they have a kind of talk show interview where they perform together, and with all of my events there is always a portion of the door that goes to the DMS, so it’s basically just incorporating what we have already, and putting a little turbo spin on it.

JANE: We also have special events coming up all this summer, like BBQs, we have ideas for competitions, an eco-fashion show, and a sexy car wash. Summer is the peak time to do events, as everyone wants to come out, so our first summer event [was] a Canada Day barbeque.

AP: Do you plan to do any travel during your year?

JANE: We are planning to travel quite a bit, we’ve already done three coronations since stepping up, and I did Seattle as I was campaigning. We did Calgary, Surrey and recently Albuquerque New Mexico, which was a lot of fun, and our next planned trip is to Austin, Texas, and after that Edmonton, and then Regina, Toronto, followed by Portland in October, and then there are those that are within driving distance, such as Bellingham, Everett, and Tacoma.

TOMMY: The day trips are easier, as we don’t have to plan to so far out. We also plan to go to Vegas in December, we’ve talked about Chicago, New York has been talked about, San Francisco, and then back to Seattle in February.

AP: Is there anything else you hope to achieve in your year?

TOMMY: Obviously, we want to raise the absolute most we possibly can for our charities, it’s become almost our second job, but it makes us so happy when get the messages every week telling us how much the shows have raised, and see that number climb, but for me, as far as the DMS goes, the thing I want to achieve, is I want to see at least two people running for each position next year. We ran unopposed, the year before they ran unopposed, and the year before that as well, so it’s been a while since we’ve seen competition; I want to see a bit of a blood bath; to see they really want it. We need to inspire the young generation, especially now, because everyone thought (and it was), that the DMS was a kind of old fashioned institution, and then we come along and say, hey, let’s party, and raise money

JANE: It used [to] be very intimidating to a lot of younger queens. There were all of these Empresses, with their gowns and all their regalia and the younger queens thought they could never do that. Then Jane Smokr comes along, and suddenly becomes Empress, without losing myself and changing overnight. I’m not suddenly going to start doing ballads and stop being myself. I want this new generation, if they are all looking up to me, for anything, I would like them to look up to me as somebody who is doing something, with a goal in mind, other than just being on Ru Paul’s Drag Race, or a famous Instagram queen. Bare bones, back to basics, drag queen realness; we are leaders that need to help the community, not fight each other all the time. This gave me a platform to show that you can still be yourself, your edgy little self, you can still go on Instagram, text and get all those followers and stuff, but remember what it’s all about, and that’s giving back. Don’t elbow each other out of the way to get to the top; if we all work together to raise money, and to see all of these young queens really excited about raising money, has just made me so proud, and that’s where I want things to go.

AP: The Coronation Ball is one of the city’s most glamourous evenings, and we have heard that you are planning to bring the Coronation Ball back to The Commodore Ballroom, after sixteen years; is that true?

TOMMY: Yeah, it’s the only place that I could see us doing it. I’ve done events at The Commodore for over ten years, and it’s the only place that feels like it’s us. We know that we’re going to get a great amount of people coming out, and we’re going to do the traditional coronation things early in the night, and then we’re going to switch it up; there’s no reason why coronation can’t be a party. We’ve come up with a great plan; early on there’s going to be the dinner and the walks, and then there’s going to be a second part of the evening, where we sell second tier tickets for what will be like a show, a big show, where we’ll have some locals, bring in some people from out of town, and have some special guests. We know most, or all of the famous queens from Drag race and other parts of Canada, so I’m calling in every single favour that I have. We want it to be a big celebration, and The Commodore is where it used to happen, so we want to bring it back, but switch it up, so we can keep this thing going.

JANE: We want it to be unforgettable.

AP: Have you decided on a theme/name for your ball?

TOMMY: We weren’t going to have a theme, and then we shot a video where everyone was wearing black and white, and after looking at it, we said, why don’t we just make that our theme; the Black and White Ball. Jane wanted beige, but no! (Laughs.)

JANE: I’m still working on it! (Laughs.)

AP: As you are travelling to all of these other balls, do you expect any out of town guests to come to Vancouver for yours?

TOMMY: They better be! That’s the way I sell things; I’m threatening! (Laughs.) Well, our ball is going to be over the Easter long weekend near the end of March [2018], so it’s a great time for people to travel. We’re good friends with the monarchs from Albuquerque, and we were the first from Vancouver to ever go there, so we’re expecting a big contingent from there; if we don’t get twenty to thirty people from Albuquerque, I’ll die of shock. Austin definitely, the entire Pacific Northwest, Halifax and pretty sure every Canadian court will be here. We also want to get some of the big courts like New York and San Francisco.

JANE: A lot of Canadians, definitely Toronto, and we’ve also got Big Daddy from New York coming.

AP: For someone aspiring to become the next Emperor or Empress of Vancouver do you have any words or advice?

JANE: I would like to say, run with somebody you know you will be a good team with, but that’s not always guaranteed; we were lucky enough to run together. You have to pretty much be ready to put your own life aside, and just embrace your new role as Empress, and realize it’s only one year, and when it’s over, you’re going to look back on it as say, yes, I did that. I’m not going to lie, it gets really overwhelming at times, when there’s so much going on that you have to do, and he does a lot as well, but on top of it all, I have to shave, paint my face, and it gets gruelling, so I have to remind myself, this is one year and when it’s done, I will feel amazing about what I’ve done. Be prepared for a very wild ride, but a very fulfilling ride.

TOMMY: Always have one dollar bills for tipping, always have your Empress’s favourite drink on hand, if they smoke always have cigarettes, a lighter, a brush, get a USB key, and have a lot of patience. I think a lot of people think that the Emperor’s job is just about being like the side kick, and publically it is, you’re there to be their helper. But also, part of being a helper is taking initiative, like don’t bother them with details about what are we going to put on the poster for this event, take initiative on the little things, and always make sure she’s fed; that’s a big one, they always forget to eat.

JANE: For a long time, the Emperor has taken a back seat, but during our reign, we are very co-dependent, and we know what we’re doing. I’m very in front of the camera, and he’s very behind the camera; I’m running up and down Davie Street, doing all the shows, and he’s on the computer sending the messages, doing the posters, etc.

TOMMY: Like organizing the trips, and as one of my friends said “Jane can’t do it without you, and you can’t do it without her”. It’s like a perfect fit, as we both say we can’t imagine you doing this with anybody else. We ran unopposed, so I guess we were very lucky, so my advice to both people running is to keep an open mind.

JANE: Run with someone you want to ascend with, and [expletive] hustle! (Laughs.)

TOMMY: At the end of the day, we do all this fun stuff; we travel, we go to all of these coronations, but the job is, you are the head of a non-profit organization for one year, that’s the job, and although we sometimes forget that, you have to be responsible and keep an open mind.

JANE: Here’s another piece of advice for people running; don’t get blinded by the glitz and the crown, and don’t do it for the attention; they’ll give it to you for about a week and a half, and then they won’t give a damn, and you will have all of this hard work to do.

AP: Any final words, or something you would like to add?

TOMMY: When we stepped up, our Facebook feeds blew up, we couldn’t accept any more friends, and this was great, but then we realized that now was time to get to work. We went into this knowing that, and we’ve made a very good plan for the first six months, and now we’re planning the second half, so you have to be prepared to work. It’s very fun, it’s extremely fulfilling, it’s super stressful, sometimes you want to jump in front of a bus, but that’s when you have your partner in this crazy adventure, and you two just work through it.

AP: Congratulations to you both on your ongoing success, thank you for speaking with us, and we wish you all the best for the rest of the 46th Reign!

2017 is turning into an exciting and innovative year for the Dogwood Monarchist Society. Now is the time to start planning your visit for the Coronation Ball in 2018, or the year-round calendar of events LGBTQ2+ Vancouver has to offer.  Feel free to visit mothercourt.ca for coronation news.

Angus Praught is president of Gayvan.com Travel Marketing, a Vancouver-based company featuring LGBTQ2+ welcoming destinations, in the Vancouver region, Canada, and beyond.

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