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Title: Concordance A Terran Empire concordance
Author: Ann Wilson
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Language: English
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Imperial Empire Concordance
by
Ann Wilson
Copyright (C) 1992 by Ann Wilson
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A: (Imperial English): The neutral-animate pronoun. Emperor Chang disliked the fact that there was no good Standard English pronoun that referred to a single individual of unknown sex, or where sex was immaterial, so he made use of the Celtic "a", often written with an accent mark (á) by those who use Standard, to distinguish it from the indefinite article (@ is sometimes used when the printing/writing device cannot show accent marks). In Imperial English orthography, the Cyrillic "ya" (reversed R) is used.<