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Nope, I haven't found a good replacement. I use the plural, also, to cut down
on the amount of annoying "he or she."
An acceptable, although far from universal, form is "s/he." I use it sparingly
cuz it's still in the chicken-egg stage: until it becomes more widely used, it
slows down the reader; conversely, it won't become widely used unless . . ..
Jan
Spencer Fleury wrote:
> . . . our guidelines
> were arbitrarily changed to mandate use of "they /
> their," even when referring to only one person.
>
> This *really* bothers the linguistic purist in me, but
> my real problem is that when I complained about it, I
> could not come up with an acceptable counteroffer.
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a
> non-gender-specific pronoun set that *also* delineates
> between plural and singular?
>
> TIA
>
> Spencer Fleury
> Trader Publishing Company
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