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lilsunnybee | 11 years ago

Or the much more common singular they.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Usage

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waterhouse|11 years ago

"née" isn't a pronoun; it's used to identify someone's birth name as distinct from her current name, as in "Hillary Clinton, née Rodham". A French-to-English dictionary says it literally means "born". (And when conjugated with a male noun, in French it would be "né".)

lilsunnybee|11 years ago

Thank you for this explanation! I was not aware.