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Scott Gibb's avatar

Love this post. Thank you for writing it.

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Maximum Liberty's avatar

“They” was used as a singular pronoun of indeterminate gender in the Canterbury Tales, the King James Bible, and many other places — pretty much as long as English has been around. So on that one, Webster is just catching up to the 14th century.

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