• dingus@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’m a native English speaker and I’ve used “they” as a singular third person neutral pronoun since before I even knew anything about trans or nonbinary people. It’s commonly accepted and not at all unusual usage, at least in American English where I grew up.

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      8 months ago

      It’s fine to use it singular, but it’s also fine to use it as plural. All you know is it’s not zero persons.