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Subject:News on the pronoun front/pronouns on the news From:Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 08 Apr 2001 20:33:05 -0400
Driving home today, BBC World News on the radio, I caught the following
sentence (or something like it, as I was not writing it down while
driving):
"Whoever is elected President of Peru, he or she will have their work
cut out for them."
I've heard similar locutions on the BBC in the past, so I take it that
this organization, which is, as we all know, quite the stickler for
usage and diction, has settled on using they-their-them as a singular
pronoun embracing both genders. Sounds awful to my US ears, but there
you are: apparently it's the way to go in the UK.
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