on Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:33:57AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated:
> (I've heard, on this list and in other places, that using
> "they"/"them"/"theirs" as a 3rd-person, gender-neutral pronoun dates
> back to the 16- or 1700s, but I can't dig up credible references right
> now. I'll work on that.)
Ah, the OED. Thanks, Akkana :)
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