On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:28:44 -0700, Dan Abel > wrote:

>In article >,
> sf > wrote:
>
>> On 25 Mar 2009 16:29:34 GMT, "Default User" >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >bulka wrote:
>> >
>> >> "This member has requested that their (sic)
>
>> >> "Their" is plural.
>> >This is not correct. The singular "their" has been a standard part of
>> >English for hundreds of years.
>> >
>> I doubt hundreds. In any case, I agree with bulka. "Their" is
>> plural, use the masculine form if you don't know a specific gender.
>
>My dictionary still disagrees:
>
>"The word they (with its counterparts them, their, and themselves) as a
>singular pronoun to refer to a person of unspecified sex has been used
>since at least the 16th century."

So, bad grammar is ok because it's been in use since the 16th
century???? Dictionaries only report usage. "Their" as a singular
is *wrong*, no matter how many centuries is has been in "common use".
Don't act like you were brought up in a barn.

As Always,



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