Ve

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The earliest known proposal of ve as a pronoun was by Philogus, in the July 1864 periodical of The Ladies' Repository, alongside possessive form vis and objective form vim. Philogus, calling it a "much-needed word," presented ve as an alternative to using "he or she," singular they, or one in sentences without a specified gender. [1] On 8 May 1970, Varda One proposed ve alongside vis and ver in a feminist article titled "Manglish." [2] Writer Keri Hulme used the same pronouns in her 1984 novel The Bone People, and Greg Egan used them in his novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).