Re: CHAT: use of "they"

Tom Wier wrote:

> In the case of "none", it's because syntactically, "none" is composed of
> "not + one" in the speech of most present day speakers.  For those who
> do, I'm sure they do it because the word is no longer analysable for them
> as "not + one", but as a seperate lexical entity.
Oops.  Should be "For those who don't use that construction..." and
"I'm sure they don't because..."