Here are some example sentences using ey/em pronouns:

• Ey went to the park.
• I went with em.
• Ey brought eir frisbee.
• At least I think it was eirs.
• Ey threw the frisbee to eirself.

Some History on ey/em

- 1890: james rogers proposed the ‘e/em/es’ set, derived from ‘he’ and ‘them’, in response to the ‘thon’ set. this is the first form of what we now call the spivak set!

- 1975: christine elverson coined the set ‘ey/em/eir’ for a contest to find an alternative to he/she. these were formed by dropping the first two letters from ‘they/them/their’, and are now known as the elverson set, the second version of spivak pronouns.

- 1983: michael spivak, a mathematician, wrote an educational book in which he used the set ‘E/Em/Eir’, capitalizing the ‘e’ each time. this is the spivak set! though it was coined after the other two related sets, they are all typically lumped together under the label ‘spivak’ because of roger crew’s addition of the gender ‘spivak’ on the site lambdamoo. choosing this gender option would cause the game to use ‘e/em/eir’ for the player, and though it was originally only put there to test the software, it was left in due to the amount of players who enjoyed the setting.