On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, R. David Murray wrote:
Nit pick: Change "he" to "they" to be gender neutral.
Nit pick: Change "they" to "he" to be grammatically correct. If we
really have to be gender neutral, change "he" to "he or she".
English is evolving. I vote for "they".
Sorry, can't resist a further nitpick: English has not been evolving in
this particular case, in the sense that "they" has been used as a singular
since before English was English:
http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/singular-they-and-the-many-reasons-why-its-correct/
Also interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Attention "he or she"ists: Singular "they" won before any of us was born.
You may want to divert your energies to a more worthy cause, such as
ensuring proper use of "whom".
Isaac Morland CSCF Web Guru
DC 2554C, x36650 WWW Software Specialist
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