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Does it have a "rule" like that really? Isn't grammar just a description of the patterns we see in languages?

• einhverfr 14y ago
  As a clarification, it isn't clear that the rule is universally followed but at least from the areas of Old English literature I have read it is the clearly most common way to use gendered pronouns at least in prosaic contexts.
• einhverfr 14y ago
  Rule in the descriptivist sense.