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Don't buy your child a bicycle: buy him/her _two_ bicycles.

• hurpAdurp 11y ago
  Instead of the awkward "him/her", try just using "them" to de-genderify your pronouns. The slash looks goofy.
  • bhrgunatha 11y ago
    Singular "they" was the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2015. http://www.americandialect.org/2015-word-of-the-year-is-singular-they http://www.americandialect.org/2015-word-of-the-year-is-sing...
  • kentosi 11y ago
    Wouldn't that just be grammatically incorrect? Unless you replace "child" with "children" of course ... (Australian English speaker here.)
    • Natsu 11y ago
      English used to allow 'they' to be singular (Shakespeare used this). Some people are coming back to it as acceptable as it's easier than the other solutions.
  • sitkack 11y ago
    I call it The Child and Child. It seems to be doing fine.