• hoshiyari@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    While the layman would say, “They dug up a fortune in those hills.”, a gold prospector, likely familiar with hick speak, would say “They dug up a fortune in them there hills.” The non-binary part comes into play by turning there into their, alluding to the assertion of pronouns common with the non-binary community.