Singular "they" on Facebook

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Sun Aug 11 14:30:39 UTC 2013


<<And since the use of "they" for singular nouns goes back at least to the
sixteenth century, it would be useless to try to put the "they" horse back
in the barn.>>
And its for babies and kinders and maidens have been around since the
Germanic stone age. So nyaah.  :)

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