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It's been standard conversational English since the 1300s.
by nhaines 1y ago
It's been standard conversational English since the 1300s.
- hintymad 1y agoThanks. Somehow when I was learning English, the instruction was to use she/her to refer to an unknown third person, so did I when writing essays in a college here. That's why it felt strange when I saw they/their for 3rd person.
- eadmund 1y agoNo, it was not standard conversational English to use the third person plural to refer to a known individual man or woman. It has been used to refer to a non-specific person.
- ragall 1y agoFar from "standard", more like occasionally used.