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  1. Sep 2016
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    ‘They’: the singular pronoun that could solve sexism in English
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    1. daniel.odonnell 26 Sep 2016
      Jane Austen uses they in the singular 75 times in Pride and Prejudice (1813) and as Rosalind muses in 1848’s Vanity Fair: “A person can’t help their birth.”

      Jane Austen use of they; also Thackeray

      Austen Pride and Prejudice they Thackeray Vanity Fair grammar pronouns
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