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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (984)	3/31/1998 2:34:00 PM
From: Achilles	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

LOL. Well, this battle with the revisionists is long lost: my second edition of Fowler's (1926!) has an interesting article on the phenomenon, of which he disapproves. But the 3d edition points out that from the 16th century onwards, we have used 'they' in reference to a single noun; it concludes "the process now seems irreversible". You said: Claude, you may be correct about it not being political correctness, but it's still revisionist grammar! If enough people talk like that it becomes accepted. I'm most comfortable speaking in Middle English <VBG!>.