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From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: "he or she" - a grammatical problem solved
Message-ID: <793@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 12:14:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 12:14:23 1986
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Reply-To: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Keywords: he she they it

Where I'm from in Georgia, nobody ever bothered to wonder about
what the appropriate singular indefinite pronouns might be,
because they already knew them.  I was rather surprised to find
when I went to school in Boston that people there had a problem.
-- 
John Quarterman, UUCP:  {gatech,harvard,ihnp4,pyramid,seismo}!ut-sally!im4u!jsq
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