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<div>At 11:30 AM -0500 4/17/01, Miriam Meyers wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>The use of they and its forms with such
antecedents is actually about 600 years old. A number of people
have written pieces on this usage and its history. A couple of
my articles are "Current Generic Pronoun Usage: An
Empirical Study," AMERICAN SPEECH 65:3 (Fall 1990) 228-237, and
"Forms of they with singular noun phrase antecedents," WORD
44:2 (August 1993) 181-192. Dennis Baron's GRAMMAR AND GENDER
(Yale UP, 1986) treats the usage as well.<br>
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<div>See also</div>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Newman, Michael
(1997) <i> Epicene Pronouns: The Linguistics of a
Prescriptive Problem. </i> New York: Garland.</font></div>
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<div>and references therein.</div>
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<div>larry</div>
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