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This is wrong. A specific person of unknown gender was always they. “That person, right there: they are trespassing!”
by ForrestN 7y ago
This is wrong. A specific person of unknown gender was always they. “That person, right there: they are trespassing!”
- ghaff 7y agoIt wasn't "always they." It's perhaps been more common in informal speech than formal writing until recently. But traditional usage would have been to use he if gender was unknown (unless it were assumed it was a woman for some reason).