Jul 30, 2018 12:15 pm4329 views
Singular they has become the pronoun of choice to replace he and she in cases where the gender of the antecedent—the word the pronoun refers to—is unknown, irrelevant, or nonbinary, or where gender needs to be concealed. It’s the word we use for sentences like Everyone loves their mother.
But that’s nothing new. The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375 . . .