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From: The Goobers <docdwarf@erols.com>
Subject: Re: Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1998/02/16
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tgg@hpl.hp.com wrote:
> 
> docdwarf@clark.net wrote:
> |In article <887259454.521453@optional.cts.com>, Will Rose <cwr@cts.com> wrote:
> |[snippismus]
> |>
> |>No.  The word 'they' is used here to mean 'he or she, gender neutral'.
> |>It's an obsolescent form of the language, probably no longer taught,
> |>but still relatively widely used among the well-educated in England.
> |>The sentence, in British English at least, is well-formed.
> 
> |I am unfamiliar with the precedent you cite; would you be so kind as to
> |post an example?
> 
> You could find it from your desk... Use the Websters dictionary at
> www.m-w.com to find...

I had previously admitted my error when a similar posting was made
citing the OED... last I looked Webster's was more for American English,
though, and the assertion was for BritSpeak.

DD