Singular "they" on Facebook

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Aug 10 22:13:24 UTC 2013


On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> A year later, there were indications that the usage was going to be phased out, but that evidently did not           > come to pass[.]

Damn shame. :-(
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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