Lauren Klinger and Kristen Hare, “Question from ACES2015: Is it Time to Accept ‘They’ as a Singular Pronoun?” (Poynter, Apr. 2, 2015)
The Associated Press didn’t announce any earthshaking changes last week at the annual American Copy Editors Society conference. But Ben Zimmer did notice a recurring topic.
“It feels like at every session I’ve attended, singular ‘they’ has come up,” said Zimmer, a Wall Street Journal columnist and the editor of Vocabulary.com.
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