Citations:pronounphobia
English citations of pronounphobia
Noun: "(chiefly sarcastic) fear, hatred, or aversion to pronouns, especially as relates to gender"
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- 2014, Kate Fox, Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour, unnumbered page:
- What you may hear referred to as 'BBC English' or 'Oxford English' is a kind of 'educated' speech– but it is more upper-middle than upper: it lacks the haw-haw tones, vowel swallowing/drawling and pronoun-phobia of upper-class speech, and is certainly more intelligible for the uninitiated.
- 2022 July 27, Dreamweasel (@Dreamweasel), Twitter[11]:
- Some conservatives, of course, take pronounphobia to absurd extremes, conflating all pronouns with gender-inclusive virtue-signaling pronouns; that can lead to empirically ridiculous pronouncements such as this: [quoting a tweet from Lavern Spicer stating: "There are no pronouns in the Constitution.]