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Questions about the use of “they”, “them”, “their”, “themself”, or “themselves” to refer to a singular animate antecedent of unspecified gender.
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Why does English use singular they instead of making up a new word for this?
Because creating a new closed-class word is a hugely invasive change to people's way of speaking.
It's much more drastic than creating a new noun (euphemism) for an old (derogatory) noun. The differe …
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