[T]he use of “he” to embrace either “he” or “she” now being held by some people to be offensive to women. The result of this has been unfortunate, to say the least. Because saying “he or she”, “him or her” and “his or hers”, when speaking about people generally, is often disagreeably clumsy, a way of avoiding doing so has arisen which is offensive to logic and common sense and shockingly illiterate when in writing. In place of “he or she”, and the rest, the words “they”, “them” and “their” are now often used, even when referring to only one person, as in “Anyone who considers this modern
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