Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?

["Samuel Choy" <schoy -at- us -dot- ibm -dot- com>]

Someone here--I think it was Bruce Byfield but it's possible I'm
crediting the wrong person--posted ample historical precedence, dating
to at least the 15th c. IIRC, for the use of _they_ as a singular
pronoun. He convinced me, and I've been following that practice ever
since, without even a twinge of compunction.
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Dick,

I'm not saying Bruce Byfield didn't write the post your thinking about, but
a guy I used to work with named Garrett Winn, (are you still out there,
Garrett?) wrote a fairly long post with historical precedence on this
subject a few years ago. Here's a link to the archive:

http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/archives/9904/techwhirl-9904-01359.html

That's enough Friday afternoon controversy for me!

Samuel Choy
IBM Rochester
http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/infocenter






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