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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

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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.)

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