She () is athird-person,singularpersonal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. Usage The misuse of she for I (also for you and he)is common in literary representations of Highland English. · " 'And here she comes,' said Donald, as Captain Dalgetty entered the hall." ? Walter Scott, The Legend of Montrose iv (1819). She is also used instead of itfor 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. · "Stanley had been ridiculing the habit of personifying the Church as a woman, and speaking of it tenderly as she." ?

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