About Unc

 

Hello! I, we, wit am, are Fiadh, a plural system in a cybernetic bodymind.

Wait, “unc,” “wit,” what?

Old English used to have a number case in between singular (one, I/me/my) and plural (many, we/us/our): dual number, for exactly two. It’s mostly been lost, but there are still a few traces of it remaining in Modern English, such as “both.” The dual first-person pronouns, for “we two” or “both of us,” were wit/unc/uncer, and wit have repurposed them to clarify when wit are only speaking as a system versus when wit are referring to a larger group wit belong to.