His or her is sounding very contrived, and it is no better to substitute her for him than to have him as the gender neutral pronoun. The use of their is increasingly common and should simply be accepted by grammarians, though it will probably take a century or so before the high and mighty accept this increasingly common usage.

2016年11月18日 · "This is his and her height" would only be correct if they had the same height (i.e. 1 height). In the same way you would not say "this is his and her name" unless they had the same name. You could makes it "these are his and her …

2010年8月6日 · The "singular they" sounds totally wrong to my ear. But I am conscious of the implicit gender bias our language can have at times. So, I prefer to choose "his" or "her" either at random, or with a bias against the stereotype: use "his" when most people would assume you're talking about a woman; use "her" when most would assume a man.

2014年12月5日 · I've always have, since these occurrences, used "his/her" (or "his or her") instead, though I am now pondering which of these to use, for I am currently writing a paper, and have no idea which pronoun to use; the "his or her" seems a little clunky, and I would much rather prefer an alternative.

2019年2月1日 · For the possessive pronouns his and her, Wiktionary gives the Proto-Germanic forms as *hes and *hezōz respectively. The "objective" pronouns him and her are etymologically derived from dative-case forms, which Wiktionary gives as *himmai and *hezōi in Proto-Germanic.

2010年10月14日 · I would not suggest using his/her throughout the text. In the generic case, refer to the user as "they", which serves as a somewhat suitable gender-neutral pronoun if you use it intermittently. Try to to strike a good mix between "the user" and "they."

2014年9月27日 · To me, it doesn't matter whether you use his, her, or their as the possessive—they all refer to someone else than one. It's no different to me than saying, “Nothing like X to remind one of Susan’s mortality”.

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2015年10月22日 · A better way to list the forms might be "he/him/his/his" and "she/her/her/hers". The key difference is in the attributive possessive form. English makes a distinction between attributive and predicate forms for the possessives. When the possessive is attributive (directly modifying a noun), you use a shorter form: This is my computer.

Why is it almost invariably “friend of his”, but we sometimes find both “friend of Peter” or "friend of Peter's" in different circumstances? I will for now accept the stipulation that "friend of Peter" is found more often than "friend of Peter's". "Why" is always a difficult question, as there are no just-so-stories in linguistics.