RE: News on the pronoun front/pronouns on the news

[bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com]

The speaker of that quote seems to be ambivalent on the whole issue.
Apparently, he/she supports using "their" but not "they."

Standards are put in place to get rid of inconsistencies.  If you kill the
standards, you kill the consistency.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- fiam -dot- net]
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 7:33 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: News on the pronoun front/pronouns on the news


"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. 


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