January 12, 2021 12:22 pm GMT
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Our centuries-old use of "they" as a singular pronoun
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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