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“Thay”: Gender-Neutral Pronoun

by David Tollen | Oct 5, 2021 | The Postclassical Age, The Early Modern Age, Linguistics & Philology

Here’s a crazy idea that might work. “They” has become the English language’s preferred third person singular pronoun, for gender-neutral use. But of course, we use the same pronoun for the third person plural. That creates confusion. Why not...