2014, Kate Fox, Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour, unnumbered page:
What you may hear referred to as 'BBC English' or 'Oxford English' is a kind of 'educated' speech– but it is more upper-middle than upper: it lacks the haw-haw tones, vowel swallowing/drawling and pronoun-phobia of upper-class speech, and is certainly more intelligible for the uninitiated.
2018 November 29, DMV Finesser (@tlxprimary), Twitter[1]:
Lmao wait we assuming their gender now lmao lol they never even said what they identified as so y’all pronounphobia (just made this up) is triggering my inner sjw
2020 January 28, Jumplat120 (@jumpsplat120), Twitter[2]:
I've noticed some people have like a pronounphobia; they see pronouns in a game or in a profile and they literally lose their shit. And they call the left a bunch of snowflakes...
2020 April 10, Charlie (@ThenonbinaryC), Twitter[3]:
Pronounphobia omg. Do they realise that they’ve used pronouns in that tweet 🤦
2020 November 11, 'Ala ad-Din (@IbnAbiQ), Twitter[4]:
Fr [for real]. All this internalised pronounphobia, like duh, everyone has pronouns
So quit with the enbyphobia and pronounphobia. Just learn to be accommodating. Learn to take people at their word. They're not out to get you or confuse you. It's not "destroying the English language." It's making it richer and more inclusive.
The conservatives' pronounphobia is not surprising given their Shakey grasp of the English language, I have had several tell me they don't use pronouns, while on fact using them
2022 June 18, Troy Lundquist (@HeroOfFruits), Twitter[9]:
Generally, people that say "pronouns in bio, opinion worthless" are just people with really shitty opinions, so getting blocked by them immediately by making fun of their "pronounphobia" (I guess that's what you call) is just funny
Every time I see a dude with decent economic plans he's got a pronounphobia and thinks I shouldn't be allowed bodily autonomy to continue HRT.
2022 July 27, Dreamweasel (@Dreamweasel), Twitter[11]:
Some conservatives, of course, take pronounphobia to absurd extremes, conflating all pronouns with gender-inclusive virtue-signaling pronouns; that can lead to empirically ridiculous pronouncements such as this: [quoting a tweet from Lavern Spicer stating: "There are no pronouns in the Constitution.]
2022 July 28, Mattachine Society (@mattachinesoc), Twitter[12]:
I still don't understand pronounphobia except that it might test well with the crowd you lost by participating on the Jan. 6 committee.
