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.

What are we going to do about irksome sentences like these that pair a singular pronoun with a plural pronoun? Everyone proposes their/his/her/his or her own solution, but each pitch has a hitch ...

People have invented more than 200 gender-neutral pronouns, ... have considered singular they unfit for print, holding fast to the rule that educated people use they only as a plural and, ...

According to standard grammar, “they” and its related forms can only agree with plural antecedents. But English sorely lacks a gender-neutral singular third-person pronoun, ...

We're used to the second-person pronoun being "you" (both singular and plural); in archaic works, we see "thou/thee," and I'm told some Quakers still use ...

Special Singular Antecedents: Each of these constructions is considered singular. Any pronoun that refers to them must be singular. Note: Use of the plural pronouns "they"/"them"/"their" is now widely ...

Lincoln's "rhetorical substitution of the plural for the singular pronoun" was unprecedented—"as no political leader had done before him"—argued Peter Field, head of the University of ...

Yet many people continue to argue that a singular antecedent cannot take a plural pronoun. This logic is flawed, however. Take the word you for example. You began its linguistic life as a plural ...

Lincoln's "rhetorical substitution of the plural for the singular pronoun" was unprecedented—"as no political leader had done before him"—argued Peter Field, head of the University of ...