Rob Morley  wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:51:13 +0200
> Bud Spencer  wrote:
>
> > But I'm not schizophrenic nor Legion.
>
> That bugs me too, but it's increasingly accepted as the correct
> gender-neutral form.

It's in common use in the UK (the OED first cite is 1450).  My US editors
sometimes pick it up, but my argument is it's better than writing
'he/she/it' all over the place, or arbitrarily assigning a gender to an
unknowable person.

Theo

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