Sweden will make a gender-neutral pronoun official by adding it to the dictionary

QUARTZ 25 March 2015 Sweden has long been progressive on gender egalitarianism, and now its language is officially catching up. A gender-neutral pronoun, henwill join its binary counterparts han (he) and hon (she) in the new edition of Sweden’s official dictionary, helping Swedish speakers avoid the sort of linguistic gymnastics common in languages without a gender-neutral alternative. Efficient in a variety of situations, hen, as AFP notes, can be used when you

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