Re: USAGE: English Usage: "THEY"

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> FWIW, IME bots are usually "it".
Well, where I hang out Monty is always "he" and phenny is "she", but the
other bots are "it".  I'm still looking for an idiomatic use
of "they" referring to a specific individual.

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John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan
"The exception proves the rule."  Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves
my theory."  Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts
the rule to the proof."  But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an
exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."