She

She (pronounced /ʃiː/) is a third-person, singular personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. In 1999, the American Dialect Society chose "she" as the word of the past millennium. The use of she for I (also for you and he) is common in literary representations of Highland English. She is also used instead of it for things to which feminine gender is conventionally attributed: a ship or boat (especially in colloquial and dialect use), ofte... more

She (pronounced /ʃiː/) is a third-person, singular personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. In 1999, the American Dialect Society chose "she" as the word of the past millennium. The use of she for I (also for you and he) is common in literary representations of Highland English. She is also used instead of it for things to which feminine gender is conventionally attributed: a ship or boat (especially in colloquial and dialect use), often said of a carriage, a cannon or gun, a tool or utensil of any kind, and occasionally of other things. She refers to abstractions personified as feminine, and also for the soul, a city, a country, an army, the Church, and others. Rarely and archaically, she referred to an immaterial thing without personification. Also of natural objects considered as feminine, as the moon, or the planets that are named after goddesses; also of a river (now rare), formerly of the sea, a tree, etc. William Caxton in 1483 (The Golden Legende 112 b/2) and Robert... less