On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 16:04, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26 Nov 2008, at 22:41, Michael Norrish wrote: > >> I've never used Spivak by choice. English has perfectly good >> gender-neutral third person singular pronouns: "they", "them" etc. (Nor are >> these some kind of PC invention of the 20th century; they occur used in this >> way in Shakespeare, the King James bible and Jane Austen. I recommend the >> discussion on Language Log (online), or the Merriam-Webster Usage >> Dictionary.) > > The First Speaker... speaks! > > Now can we get rid of Spivak? > I second this motion. It worked for B.
BobTHJ
