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English
Etymology
thon + -s
Adjective
thons (not comparable)
- (archaic, nonstandard) Belonging to thon, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.
1889 November, C. Crozat Converse, “That Desired Impersonal Pronoun”, in The Writer, volume 3, number 2, Boston: William H. Hills, page 248: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.
1895 July, The Lynchburg Record, quotee, “The New Pronoun”, in The Public-School Journal, volume 14, number 11, Bloomington: Public-School Publishing Co., page 613:I hope that each student will have learned thons algebra lesson perfectly this morning.
1895, Henry Graham Williams, Outlines of Psychology, 3rd edition, Syracuse: C. W. Bardee, page 5:Every student should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively correlate the facts of thons knowledge.
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Noun
thons m
- plural of thon