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There are countless examples, including from Shakespeare ("and every one to rest themselves betake"). See the lists at http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/sgth

by gruseom 13y ago

There are countless examples, including from Shakespeare ("and every one to rest themselves betake"). See the lists at http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/sgtheirl.html http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/sgtheirl.html and http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/grammar/sing_they_sli.pdf http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/grammar/sing_they_sli.pdf. More citations at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058643.

727374 13y ago
Anything from the 21st century from, perhaps, a respected newspaper?
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  The 2011 revision of the New International Version of the Bible, because: The gender-neutral pronoun "they" ("them"/"their") is by far the most common way that English-language speakers and writers today refer back to singular antecedents such as "whoever," "anyone," "somebody," "a person," "no one," and the like. Even in Evangelical sermons and books, where the generic "he," "him" and "his" are preserved more frequently than in other forms of communication, instances of what grammarians are increasingly calling the "singular they" ("them" or "their") appear three times more frequently than generic masculine forms." http://www.biblica.com/niv/accuracy/ http://www.biblica.com/niv/accuracy/
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