Now you may have noticed that "they" is both singular and plural in our chart here. That's one of the big fusses about pronouns these days. But I'm here to tell you that singular they is nothing new.

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I love the Swedish introduction of the gender-neutral “hen” and would embrace a new English language gender-neutral pronoun, in both its singular and plural forms. Terry Kleinberg New York.

Baron also notes that “you” was originally a plural pronoun, with its singular being “thou, thee and thy.” Now we’ve happily accepted “you” as a pronoun to refer to a single person.

And, when we look at the record, we discover the pronoun “they” has been used as a singular generic pronoun, alongside its plural uses, for hundreds of years.