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dot org on the TED radio hour linguist Anne Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun

they to refer to one person.

I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me but it

can't be singular and I will say but it is. The history behind words causing a lot of

debate that's on the Ted Radio Hour from NPR.

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