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Old Wed Dec 09, 2015, 07:29pm
Rob1968 Rob1968 is offline
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Originally Posted by Whistles & Stripes View Post
So why is it when you're thinking of whacking a coach, you assume it's a HE, and when you're thinking about a "professional and not overly argumentative" coach, you assume it's a SHE?
It's simply a literary mechanism, an alternative form of stating "he/she" in each instance.
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