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January 12, 2021 12:22 pm GMT

Our centuries-old use of "they" as a singular pronoun

Public-domain photo of dictionary definition of the word "they", by Clive Thompson

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


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