ey

intj

1. Alternative form of hey.

   “JULIO. (Moves away.) No walking. I told you I’m not walking. / INES. You walked yesterday after the exercises. / JULIO. I can’t today. / INES. Then I’m going outside to smoke! / JULIO. Ey, don’t get angry!”

   “The night vault rests for a while and Tony springs to life, shifting his weight to the balls of his feet, and hurling a fusillade of punches which fall inches from my tummy. ‘Ey, ey stop that will you,’ Liam says, pulling him away from me, ‘Remember what we said about all that? A time and a place ey son?’”

name

1. Initialism of Ernst & Young.

noun

1. Obsolete form of eye.

pron

Etymology: Coined by Christine M. Elverson in 1975 by removing the "th" from they.

1. A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, one of the so-called Spivak pronouns, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

   “Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey wouldn't clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And if ey should trip up in the new usage, ey would only have emself to blame.”

   “I'm not familiar with this book, but I encourage Marksmill to look for it-- and while ey is at it, to also look at a number of other books.”