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"They" is plurals. It doesn't make sense to replace all he's and she's with they.

• allard 13y ago
  Meanwhile, many great writers — Byron, Austen, Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, Trollope and more — continued to use they and company as singulars, never mind the grammarians. In fact, so many people now use they in the old singular way that dictionaries and usage guides are taking a critical look at the prohibition against it. R. W. Burchfield, editor of The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage, has written that it’s only a matter of time before this practice becomes standard English: “The process now seems irreversible.” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) already finds the singular they acceptable “even in literary and formal contexts,” but the Usage Panel of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.) isn’t there yet. —nytimes.com, 2009
• mcv 13y ago
  It does, but you need to do it correctly. "They's" is stupid and wrong. Had it been changed to "they're", it'd be fine.
  • codygman 13y ago
    I thought this too, but apparently "They's" is correct? I'm not all too sure, but all in all none of it seems like a big deal to me.
• gte910h 13y ago
  We use "you" instead of "thee and thou" now
  • justbaker 13y ago
    no. you don't use me. I shall not get used, sir!