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Originally Posted by bob jenkins
... up to (nearly) 8 minutes after s/he returns.
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Yes, there was some discussion about a "time element".
Noticing some "they"'s instead of "he/she" in IAABO publications this year.
Doesn't sound great but does sound better than "he/she".
Why can't IAABO, or the NFHS, just have some situations about boys games (using he) and some situations about girls games (using she).
IAABO made a big deal about having many new illustrations in this year IAABO Handbook, with different genders, and different ethic hair styles.
Nice change. Took a long time. Does that make IAABO "woke"? If so, I say go for it.
The reinvention of the traditionally plural pronoun may seem sudden, but its second meaning isn’t as modern as you may assume: The word has appeared as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun in English literature for centuries.
The earliest known instance of the singular they can be found in the medieval poem William and the Werewolf from 1375.
They as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun has been employed by some of the greatest writers of the English language for centuries. In 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer used it in The Canterbury Tales. William Shakespeare was a fan of the usage, writing it into several of his plays, including A Comedy of Errors and Hamlet. Two centuries later, Jane Austen used they to describe a single entity in her 1814 novel Mansfield Park.