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The singular they is as English as Shakespeare

I recently wrote about the importance of gender-neutral language and set out a number of ways to fix it. I said that, depending on the specific sentence, gender-specific language can be fixed by omitting the pronoun, substituting an article, substituting the second person or changing to plural. The genesis of the problem is that the English ...

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