he or sheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

代名詞

he or she (third person, 単数形, 複数形 they)

1. (sometimes proscribed) He or she; used as a gender-neutral reference to the third person singular.
   • 2003, Doyice Cotten, John T. Wolohan, Law for recreation and sport managers, page 466:

     In Skinner the Court stated: It is not disputed, however, that chemical analysis of urine, like that of blood, can reveal a host of private medical facts about an employee, including whether he or she is epileptic, pregnant, or diabetic.

使用する際の注意点

It is not recommended to write he (または she) or he—or she—, which treats a woman as an exception.^[1]

参考

• him or her, her or him
• his or her, her or his
• they (単数形)

参照

代名詞

heorshe ‎(third person, 単数形, 複数形 they)

1. (neologism, Internet) Alternative form of he or she: singular of they, used as a gender-neutral reference to the third person singular.
   • 1994 May 4, "Mary Flanagan" (username), "Savannah College of Art and Design", in alt.artcom, Usenet:

     I heard ghastly rumors about some faculty actually destroying a student's video because heorshe didn't feel it was art. . . even if a rumor it sounds like a pretty terrible environment for expression.

   • 1996 September 16, "Jon LeBlanc" (username), "Argonut's special game report. (Argos/Sask)", in rec.sport.football.canadian, Usenet:

     Why doesn’t Argonut come out of the closet (where heorshe is having an affair with hisorher Filter Queen) and identify himorherself? It would be more fun to persecute himorher if we actually knew who heorshe is. ;-)

   • 1998 May 20, "CML" (username), "Mages playing out of Paradigm", rec.games.frp.storyteller, Usenet:

     Perhaps heorshe started out by investigating the scientific validity of all those house remedies and more esoteric healing methods which fall into the stereotypical Verbena paradigm.