* ( singular pronoun) They'' began to be used as a singular pronoun in the 1300s. Well, they ’s a lot of ‘em didn’t survive, if you believe me. * 2010, Alessandro Portelli, They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History, page 207:.* 2008, Christian Carvajal, Lightfall, page 82:īut they ain’t nothin’ in there you didn’t already have.* 2000, Janice Giles, Hill Man, page 58:.They didn’t have computers in the old days. People some people someone, excluding the speaker.One thing a nominee earns is the right to pick the vice president that they think will best reflect their vision of the country, and I am just glad I will have nothing to do with it.

* 2008, ( Michelle Obama), quoted in ( Lisa Rogak), Michelle Obama in Her Own Words, New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2009.

Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. There's not a man I meet but doth salute me As if I were their well-acquainted friend.

* 1594, , Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 3:.

(the third-person singular, sometimes proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender.

There is no reason to be scared of iguanas.

* 2010, Iguana Invasion!: Exotic Pets Gone Wild in Florida (ISBN 1561644684), page 9:.

I have a car and a truck, but they are both broken.

(the third-person plural) A group of people, animalsįred and Jane? They just arrived.

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