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- Newsgroups: alt.polyamory
- Subject: Grammar Flame
- Message-ID: <727616865.AA07861@tdkt.kksys.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 21:42:38 -0600
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- In a message to All <19 Jan 93 00:04> in Usenet alt.polyamory John E. Clark
- wrote:
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- JEC> In article <727313533.AA06757@tdkt.kksys.com>
- JEC> Jim.Swanson@f0.n628.z0.tdkt.kksys.com (Jim Swanson) writes:
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- + GL> Actually, while we're discussing Mr. Webster, I should note that both
- + GL> he and the OED 2 think that using "they" to refer to a singular
- + GL> antecedent is a fine thing to do.
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- JS> +Hmm; the OED 1 doesn't go that far. It does say that "they" has been
- JS> +used that way for a *long* time, but it doesn't appear to express a
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- JEC> Since OED is 'A New Engish Dictionary
- JEC> Based on Historical Principles'(NED),
- JEC> 'a long time' may mean since middle english arose out of it's
- JEC> frenchified slough.
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- Yes, certainly. What's your point?
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