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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
"They" has meant "he" or "her" in the singular since before Shakespeare...
A Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 3:
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There's not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend
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And the Oxford English Dictionary states
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The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49754930
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Examples of the singular "they" being used to describe someone features as early as 1386 in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and also in famous literary works like Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1599.
"They" and "them" were still being used by literary authors to describe people in the 17th Century too - including by Jane Austin in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice.
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Last edited by Hugh; 27-02-2021 at 20:16.
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