Singular "they" on Facebook

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 11, 2013, at 10:30 AM, W Brewer wrote:

> <<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.  :)
>
Well, not to be pedantic, but is there a single example of an "anyone…it"?

LH

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