News on the pronoun front/pronouns on the news

[Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>]

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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