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At 06:15 PM 4/8/2009, O'Sullivan, Brian P wrote:
>I was wondering whether list members find that it is now acceptable
>(or at least accepted in some circles) to use "they" or "their" as
>an alternative to constructions like "he or she" or "his or
>her"--that is, as a gender-neutral third-person pronoun (as in my
>subject line).
DD: HORROR! I demur. Keep those agreeable agreements amongst the
components of the utterance.
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