[Ads-l] Heard: "they"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun May 29 00:50:35 UTC 2016


"I've just had a courier deliver an envelope. Are _they_ arrived?"


The courier with the envelope? Or only the courier, whose sex matters not?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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