Bless you who are up to date. Bob Lee
Don't ask me to trade in my modern car for an 1930 model, and don't ask me to trade in my modern mail program for a 1980 program. That is just plain stupidity no matter how you look at it.
Flame away and we will know who you are. :-)
"d.linen" wrote:
One entry found for themselves.Main Entry: them·selves
Pronunciation: [th]&m-'selvz, [th]em-
Function: pronoun plural
Date: 14th century
1 a : those identical ones that are they -- compare
THEY 1a;
used reflexively, for emphasis, or in absolute
constructions
<nations that govern themselves> <they themselves
were
present> <themselves busy, they disliked idleness
in
others> b : himself or herself : HIMSELF, HERSELF
-- used
with an indefinite third person singular antecedent
<nobody
can call themselves oppressed -- Leonard Wibberley>
2 : their normal, healthy, or sane condition <were
themselves again after a night's rest>
usage see THEY[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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