Thread: Pronouns
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Old 07-09-2022, 17:00   #257
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Re: Pronouns
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
It is not ungrammatical. On the contrary it is correct English grammar and has been since time immemorial. It is not an invention of radical gender campaigners.

I refer you to Oxford, which has traced the earliest known use of “they” as a singular pronoun where sex is unknown to the year 1375.

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-...singular-they/
Yes, I’m aware of that Chris, but does it not depend on the context in which it is used? In the 1375 example, it sounds right, but if you say, for example:

‘Dolores put on her shoes and then they walked away’,

it sounds decidedly odd, as if the shoes were walking away (which I suppose they were, really!
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