See xir on Wiktionary
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"ipa": "/ʃɜː/",
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"ipa": "/ʒɜː/",
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"ipa": "/ʃɜɹ/",
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"General-American"
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34,
37
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],
"ref": "2019 October 30, Debbie Luxon, “Myth-busting asexuality: Being asexual in Cambridgeshire”, in Cambridgeshire Live:",
"text": "This causes Cici to hide parts of xir identity to protect from these stereotypes.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "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",
"text": "The soft blue sky had the feel of a good omen. In Xir old age, the god moved slower every year; lingering in the shallows long after the last fish had been swallowed up by nets. Sometimes Xe stood still for days, in sight of the shore, as if Xe had not quite decided whether to beach Xemself for good. Let Xem only survive long enough to spawn a new god! Else Xir helpless people would be godless ans stranded in the haunted dryland where the dead cities slept. Where less kindly deities roamed."
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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