The English Pronoun Problem

January 9th, 2006

Here’s a short and interesting read on the history of gender-neutral pronouns in the English language. The use of “he”, “him”, “his”, etc. as generic pronouns was done via an act of Parliament in 1850.

http://www.damninteresting.com/…

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