[email protected] wrote: > > In a message dated 09/08/2001 9:09:58 Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << > Actually, according to some grammar experts (I believe William Safire and > some others, though I could be wrong about who THEY are), the presumed > "politically correct" generic pronoun "their" and "theirs" was used some 200 > years ago, and is today considered grammatically correct. > > Even if it wasn't, I'd still use it. "HE" DOESN'T APPLY TO WOMEN. > > Nina Colloid >> > I have never seen that usage in literature. If so, why was it changed? It's > an axiom of proper English that the subject agree with the verb. "Their own > self" violates good grammar. His/her works, sounds literate and violates no > rule of proper English.
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