Gender Neutral Pronoun, we hardly knew ya

I was perusing the archives of Damn Interesting, and I came upon a great article that explains why English uses (or at least, used), the male pronouns as the gender-neutral. And it didn’t start until the 1850s. Maybe we should go back to their original solution… Read the article to see what it was. Damn Interesting, indeed.

April 21st, 2006 | Paradoxdruid | 1 Comment »|
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One Response to “Gender Neutral Pronoun, we hardly knew ya”

What a “Coote” to suggest such a thing 😛

Mallorn - April 24th, 2006 at 6:43 am

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