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You are confidently incorrect.

• b112 4y ago
  Or mayhap I know what difference lay, between it and they?
  • ojkelly 4y ago
    > The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf. https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/ https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
    • IncRnd 4y ago
      Yes, but the first sentence of that article reads, "Singular they has become the pronoun of choice to replace he and she in cases where the gender of the antecedent – the word the pronoun refers to – is unknown, irrelevant, or nonbinary, or where gender needs to be concealed." According to your article, because the name of the actual person, Gustave Eiffel, is known the correct form of address is "Gustave Eiffel". Otherwise, no reader really knows who or how many people "they" references.
      • ncmncm 4y ago
        Many others were involved. Likely even some nonbinaries; only the word is a recent invention.
        • IncRnd 4y ago
          What word is a recent invention?
          • ncmncm 4y ago
            "Nonbinary"