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Originally Posted by Stephen Wolstenholme
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English does not have a neuter pronoun. I was using "they" in the common colloquial usage to avoid having to either make a gender assumption, use the cumbersome "he/she" or the twee "s/he". I will endeavour to be far more precise in my use of language should I ever be moved in the future to respond to a thread to which you have contributed.
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