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I'm sure there are examples, but in common use it is understood to be plural and has been used that way in all writing for a long time.

• moron4hire 6y ago
  That is not correct https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Usage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Usage > They with a singular antecedent goes back to the Middle English of the 14th century... and has remained in common use for centuries...
  • jeffreyrogers 6y ago
    > in common use it is understood to be plural What I said is correct. Prior to about 4-5 years ago you did not find people using they in the singular, hence "in common use".
• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > I’m sure there are examples, but in common use it is understood to be plural and has been used that way in all writing for a long time. It is grammatically plural, but it has been accepted for semantically singular use since long before the Victorian effort to impose Latin-inspired rules on English usage which failed to eradicate it despite intense effort. (Victorian prescriptivism did have some good effects — regularized spelling FTW — but trying to eradicate clear and useful usages like singular “they” was one of its less-well-considered, but fortunately also less-successful, efforts.)
  • jeffreyrogers 6y ago
    > in common use it is understood to be plural Nothing in what you wrote contradicts what I stated. The man on the street thinks they is plural, and nearly all writing treats it that way. Historical examples excepted.