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Jimellow · 11-14-2004, 03:06 AM

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Originally Posted by molloby

Would you consider hyphenating it?

If you do want to use "themself" at least you can console yourself by knowing that Emily Dickinson used it http://plagiarist.com/poetry/8776/ and at least one other person thinks it should be a word http://open-dictionary.com/Themself

Thanks for the links and the reply.

Since this is a paper for class, I'm not really sure what will fly. I really can't believe "themself" isn't a "recognized" word. The open-dictionary definition you provided works really well, and I am tempted to use it, but I am just not sure because I always assumed it was in fact a word.

I actually think the professor would prefer if I used a non-gender specific word, even if it doesn't exist (??), but assuming is something that I am generally pretty bad at.

I'll have to think on it. I appreciate the links though, they were very helpful.