eir

1. nonstandardrareBelonging to em, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to the singular their and coordinate with his and her.

   The adult worries much less; is cautious, sensible and knows how to protect emself and eir system from attack and error.

   2004 March 31, Sue Thomas, Hello World : travels in virtuality, Raw Nerve Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 78

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   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.

   1975 August 23, Judie Black, “Ey has a word for it”, in Chicago Tribune, section 1, page 12

   A person whose habit is to stand and walk splay-footed may *think* eir feet are straight ahead, when they are actually pointed only slightly less out.

   1996 December 22, Shirley Worth, “New To Yoga”, in alt.yoga (Usenet), message-ID <32BDCA0C.6C8@worth.org>

   If a mobile user is far from eir home area, ey will pay a long-distance fee for carriage of the call *from* eir home area, just as a caller would pay long-distance on a call *to* that area.

   1997 November 25, Scott Robert Dawson, “Who Pays for Cellular Calls”, in alt.cellular (Usenet), message-ID <347acf56.333719@news.interlog.com>

   And ultimately: I think my readers are mature enough that knowing eir assigned gender is not going to give them an “excuse” to misgender em.

   2011 March 15, RJ Edwards, “#89: New Friend”, in Riot Nrrd, archived from the original on 30 May 2013

   “You idiot girl! Are you childsick?” She grabbed Asu’s wrist; Asu made no effort to twist away. “Sand and soil, tell me you’re not pregnant. Is it that—what’s eir name? Aeran? Have you lain with em? Tell me!” […] Empre waded out to help them cross the last stretch. More people, a few hundred, perhaps, had gathered along the shore. One of them came running at Melu with a cry—she threw up her arms in defense. But it was Aeran, only Aeran. E seized Asu and clasped her close, eir eyes closed tightly as e sobbed eir relief.

   2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202

plural EIRs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of excess information rate.
2. USabbreviationinitialismlawInitialism of establishment inspection report: a report issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration following the inspection of a facility where goods under the authority of the agency are manufactured, held, or sold.
3. CaliforniaabbreviationinitialismlawInitialism of environmental impact report.

   Anaheim, which also has its EIR completed, lacks the glitz and allure of Los Angeles, and the price and demand for pricey corporate suites and club seating may not produce the same kind of revenue that a stadium in Los Angeles would provide.

   2004 September 8, Leonard Shapiro, “Stadium Groups Vie to Give NFL Reason to Love L.A.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

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   Whether the latest changes to the Zumthor design trigger excitement or criticism, the release of the EIR will refocus attention to key questions, including to what extent rising construction costs prompted a 10% reduction in the building’s size, how feasible a new opening target of early 2024 may be, and what next steps must be taken to carry the project forward.

   2019 March 28, Deborah Vankin, “LACMA clears key hurdle, but rising costs force new museum to shrink in size”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2019

   Many of those commenting urged the commission to not recommend the EIR for certification, citing potential increases in traffic congestion and questions about how fans would cross the currently unprotected train tracks that border the ballpark site, as well as environmental concerns.

   2022 January 20, Steve Berman, “A’s stadium project EIR moves forward with vote from Oakland City Planning Commission”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2025

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Executive Intelligence Review.

   He [Richard Tomlinson] denies placing the names of 117 individuals some of them wrongly identified as MI6 officers – on the EIR site.

   1999 May 17, Richard Norton-Taylor, “Fayed ‘link’ with renegade MI6 man checked”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2015

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   “I think it's very useful to have a voice of truth in the Washington area,” said Dana Scanlon, a spokeswoman for EIR. She said she believes EIR will try the program on another area station.

   1986 October 10, Jeffrey Yorke, “[Lyndon] LaRouche ‘Hour’ Pulled”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

   During the 1996 presidential campaign [of Lyndon LaRouche], EIR carried the headline: “US Election is also a Referendum on Britain’s Lord [William] Rees-Mogg.”

   2019 February 25, Telegraph Obituaries, “Lyndon LaRouche, Right-wing conspiracy theorist who believed the Queen [Elizabeth II] was a global drug-trafficker and who ran for US president eight times – obituary”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2020

2. UKabbreviationinitialismrareInitialism of Elizabeth I Regina; a retronymic royal cypher of Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland.

   Other than that, there is "A Man For All Seasons" set in Elizabethan period, though not about E I R directly.

   1995 April 9, John Douglas Porter, “movies about Queeen Elizabeth I”, in rec.arts.movies (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026

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   There was a contemporary pic in Saturday's "Times" of EIR's funeral cortege. It was gobsmackingly beautiful. Did anyone see it?

   2003 March 25, LizR, “Elizabeth I”, in alt.history.british (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026

   It was also the occasion for [Benjamin] Britten's *Gloriana*, which caused considerable murmuring and was a flop at the premiere because the opening night audience didn't include anyone interested in opera, and because the portrait of EIR isn't exactly glorificatory.

   2005 December 6, Peter T. Daniels, “So it is true...”, in sci.lang (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026