Notes on an overheard coversation as commercials are playing

“They just used ‘their’ when they should have used ‘his or her.’” “It's a foregone conclusion—‘they’ is now a singular pronoun in addition to being a plural.” “It's just wrong!” “Singular ‘they’ goes back to the thirteen or fourteen hundreds.” “Someone was wrong then, and they're wrong now.” “Did you just a singular ‘they?’” “Quiet! My show is back on!”

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