To Mark's question on the origin of he/she, I said:
>Dissimilation-assimilation combined with dialectal convergeance?
>Like maybe, he/heo > *he/*sho > he/she?
Whoops! Apparently /sho/ DOES exist in Middle English and there's
even a bibliographical reference online explaining it:
Britton, D. (1991) "On ME she/sho: a Scots solution to an English problem",
Nowele [North-Western European Language Evolution]17, 3-51."
Hmm, damn I'm good. Any other questions? :)
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