On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:00:19AM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote:
abomination with "everyone should bring his or her raincoat." "Their" spares you the embarrassment of gender, so most say "... bring _their_ raincoat" which is plural. But no one would miss the singular nature of the subject-verb agreement in the following:
"They/Their" has been used in the singular for hundreds of years. Shakespeare even used it this way. So other than annoying some people, "Everyone should bring their raincoat" has been acceptable English for a about as long as one could call it English. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
