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Comment by StilesCrisis

3 hours ago

"They" has been a gender-neutral singular or plural pronoun for hundreds of years.

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spauldo  15 minutes ago

Maybe, but default masculine was way more common. That was still taught as proper usage in the 80s here in the US. He/she was its most common replacement until fairly recently.

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