Singular "they" on Facebook

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 11, 2013, at 2:21 PM, W Brewer wrote:

> <<Well, not to be pedantic, but is there a single example of an
> "anyone…it"?>>
> Anyone that gets tagged is it.
>
Yes, and "Anyone that wants to watch TV can turn it on" or "There's an extra slice of pizza if anyone wants it".  I would have used referential indices if ascii allowed subscripts.

LH

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