[Date Prev][Date Next][Subject Prev][Subject Next][ Date Index][ Subject Index]

Re: OT: Status, Portable

"Anthro-L" discussion? Whazzat?
   Russ Spittler

----- Original Message -----
From: "mike shupp" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Status, Portable


>
> What are we to say about the avalanche towards "they" and "their" as
> singular neutral pronouns? To each their own?
>
>
> --Harry
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> This seems to be a late-20th century revival of an 18th or
> 19th usage. (Not my own scholarship -- it was a topic that
> popped up on the Anthro-L discussion list about 4 years ago.)
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at
http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
>
>
>