flamingos, 1 year ago I’m from the UK and I was definitely taught to use the genderless he in formal writing, I remember my teacher commenting on how sexist it was. Also, no idea where you got the idea that the singular they is only a hundred years old, Oxford puts the earliest use of it to the fifteenth century.
I’m from the UK and I was definitely taught to use the genderless he in formal writing, I remember my teacher commenting on how sexist it was.
Also, no idea where you got the idea that the singular they is only a hundred years old, Oxford puts the earliest use of it to the fifteenth century.