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Third Person Singular, Unknown Gender
December 18, 2012 6:51 am
(@grantbarrett)
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What's the rule on using they and their in place of his and hers? Grammarians a couple of centuries ago may have misapplied some Latin rules of grammar to the unruly English language, but the issue is clear today: the word they functions perfectly well as an epicene pronoun as does their for its possessive version. No professional linguist will tell you otherwise. This is part of a complete episode.
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