Re: Epicene pronoun (was: French (was: Optimum number of symbols))
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 26, 2002, 19:00 |
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At 4:42 pm -0400 25/5/02, Doug Dee wrote:
>According to the American Heritage Dictionary, singular "they" has been
>around considerably longer, since about 1300.
>>
Right - I stand corrected. That makes its usage even more entrenched and
the objections of pedants even more petty :)
Ray.
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Speech is _poiesis_ and human linguistic articulation
is centrally creative.
GEORGE STEINER.
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