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Old 13-Sep-2007, 11:13
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Originally Posted by Anglika View Post
Singular "their" is an old usage and is commonly accepted as a neutral pronoun.

For anyone interested in this ongoing argument, this is a good outline of its history: Singular "their" in Jane Austen and elsewhere: Anti-pedantry page
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