On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:09:38AM -0800, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
I was under the impression (don't know if I ever heard it in an educational setting) that "their" had become the gender-neutral singular pronoun... kind of like how "sie" in German can be "she," "you," or "they" depending on context and capitalization. So it's not that "everyone" is treated as plural, it's that "their" is treated as singular.
True, except for the "had become" part. It's been that way for hundreds of years. Shakespeare uses "their" in the singular. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
