We toss around “he,” “she,” and “they” like they've always been part of the English language, but only one of them, the pronoun "he,” actually dates back to the earliest form of English. The others?
The word "they" is displayed on a computer screen in 2019 in New York. (Jenny Kane/AP) Just to add to Anne Curzan’s sensible arguments in her Oct. 23 op-ed, “ ‘They’ has been a singular pronoun for ...