on Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:33:57AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > (I've heard, on this list and in other places, that using > "they"/"them"/"theirs" as a 3rd-person, gender-neutral pronoun dates > back to the 16- or 1700s, but I can't dig up credible references right > now. I'll work on that.)
Ah, the OED. Thanks, Akkana :)
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