In historic English "his" is the non-gender specific useage in this case...
Jon Glass wrote:
On Dec 8, 2004, at 6:56 PM, Peter J. Alling wrote:
I thought a purist drank "his" coffee black. (A purist also uses the proper non-gender specific pronoun in English as well).Actually, that was the joke... but as I understand English, a purist would stick to the historical understanding of the English language, and not allow his language to be "trendy" either...
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