Myn
Origin
Respelling of men based on womyn, which was itself respelled so as to be spelled differently from men.
Noun
noun
- (very rare, chiefly jocular) Alternative spelling of men (plural of man)
- 2000 April, Out, volume 8, number 10, page 54:... the 12th Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival is here. (Once again, myn are strictly forbidden.) The weekend-long event holds the promise of craft markets, acoustic folk sing-alongs, and Southern-food potlucks.
- 2005, Lisa Lees, Fragments of Gender (ISBN 1411637119), page 30:I do not expect to be included in all 'womyn space' (nor, truth be told, do I wish to be). But if the choice is between womyn space and myn space, I sure as heck do not belong in the latter.
- unknown date, John Leo, Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police (ISBN 1412845386), page 41:Old Yeller — Senior animal companion of color.Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — One of the monocultural oppressed womyn confronts the vertically challenged.Men at Arms — The myn are at it again.