AP stylebook now allows the "singular they" in some instances

If anyone doesn’t like singular “they” for a pronoun of unspecified gender, might I quote the Medley Marine Journal of March 3, 1794, “we would aſk [you] to coin us a ſubſtitute.”

From a nice review of attempts to fill missing English pronouns since 1792: The Words that Failed: A chronology of early nonbinary pronouns.

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