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- archaicnonstandardnot comparableBelonging to thon, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.
I hope that each student will have learned thons algebra lesson perfectly this morning.
1895 July, The Lynchburg Record, quotee, “The New Pronoun”, in The Public-School Journal, volume 14, number 11, Bloomington: Public-School Publishing Co., page 6132 more examples
Every writer has "thons" verbal likes and dislikes, yet, for the sake of convenience, I trust that even "thon" who dislikes verbal innovations will give my little word a little trial and note for me the result.
1889 November, C. Crozat Converse, “That Desired Impersonal Pronoun”, in The Writer, volume 3, number 2, Boston: William H. Hills, page 248Every student should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively correlate the facts of thons knowledge.
1895, Henry Graham Williams, Outlines of Psychology, 3rd edition, Syracuse: C. W. Bardee, page 5
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