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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Grammar and Spelling on the Net
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Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 01:53:13 EST
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I am shocked and appalled by the objections raised to sentences
such as:

	"Each person does as they think best."

This is not ungrammatical, wrong, in error, mistaken, illiterate,
or otherwise stupid.  Those of you who believe otherwise should
read my previous posting (a quote of respectable texts on
the English language, including the OED).

Those of you reading net.singles are at a disadvantange, as the
aritcle was posted to net.nlang and net.women only.  Sorry, but
that was the best choice for the subject matter, in my opinion.

The article's title is:

	"he or she" -- a grammatical problem solved

I suggest you read it before you continue your criticisms of
statements that use "they" with singular pronouns.
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,seismo,hplabs}!amdahl!gam