On 26 Nov 2008, at 22:41, Michael Norrish wrote:
I've never used Spivak by choice. English has perfectly good gender-neutral third person singular pronouns: "they", "them" etc. (Nor are these some kind of PC invention of the 20th century; they occur used in this way in Shakespeare, the King James bible and Jane Austen. I recommend the discussion on Language Log (online), or the Merriam-Webster Usage Dictionary.)
The First Speaker... speaks! Now can we get rid of Spivak?
