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Our centuries-old use of "they" as a singular pronoun
Tuesday January 12, 2021. 01:22 PM , from BoingBoing
Discover has an excellent short history of the old and venerable use of 'they', in English, to refer to a single person.
The use of 'they' as a singular pronoun has recently been part of a culture war, but as the linguists quoted here point out, we've been doing it for hundreds of years. — Read the rest
https://boingboing.net/2021/01/12/our-centuries-old-use-of-they-as-a-singular-pronoun.html
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