An ad: _baby_ > _it_

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> The OED has this use of "it" to 1879

You kinda missed the beginning of this only semi-serious bit, Ben.
I'm, well, elderly and from a town in East Texas. At that place and at
the rime, "baby" and "child" were always pronominalized with "it."
Nowadays, "they" seems to be the usual way to go. So, that "it" is the
old(er) way of doing it and that it still is seen in print,
occasionally, was my point.

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