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Can ‘They' Be Accepted As A Singular Pronoun?

Can ‘They' Be Accepted As A Singular Pronoun?
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Copy editors might seem like stick-in-the-mud traditionalists when it comes to language change, but when I attended the American Copy Editors Society’s annual conference in Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago, I found growing acceptance of a usage that has long been disparaged as downright ungrammatical: treating “they” as a singular pronoun.

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