[Corpora-List] Meta-Gender & Meta-Number

[Trevor Jenkins]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Orion Montoya <orion at mdcclv.com> wrote:

> > Apparently, some authors pull their works from a meta*book
> > in which the word "their" is a genderless singular pronoun.
>
> Are you seriously peeving on "singular they" on the *Corpora* list, of
> all places?
>
> O.
>
> (Authors like Austen, Scott, Ruskin, and Shakespeare).

Yup, Austen does all over the shop so too Shakspear. There are many
examples in Austen's novel Emma of broken English grammar rules ---
dangling prepositions being my favourites.

Regards, Trevor

<>< Re: deemed!


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