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🔥 Mind-Blowing English Fact: "They" Was ALWAYS Singular Too!

Ever been told that using "they" for one person is wrong or new? Well, time to drop some historical truth! ❗️

☕️ Here's the tea: Singular "they" has been rocking the English language since... the 14th century! Yes, you read that right - that's over 700 years!

📚 Famous writers who used singular "they":

❤️ Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)
❤️William Shakespeare
❤️Jane Austen
❤️Charles Dickens

🍂 Examples through time:

"If anybody calls, tell them I'll be back at 6" - perfectly normal English for centuries!

📎 Shakespeare wrote (1594):

"There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / As if I were their well-acquainted friend"

🧡 Why it's brilliant:🧡

❤️ Fills a gap when gender is unknown
❤️ Smoother than "he/she"
❤️ Been natural to English speakers for centuries
❤️ Simpler than making up new pronouns

❗️ Fun fact: In 2019, "they" was so widely used as a singular pronoun that Merriam-Webster dictionary made it their Word of the Year!

🧡 Remember: Next time someone says singular "they" is incorrect, you can tell them (see what I did there? 🧡 ) that it's older than modern English itself!

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🔥 Mind-Blowing English Fact: "They" Was ALWAYS Singular Too!

Ever been told that using "they" for one person is wrong or new? Well, time to drop some historical truth! ❗️

☕️ Here's the tea: Singular "they" has been rocking the English language since... the 14th century! Yes, you read that right - that's over 700 years!

📚 Famous writers who used singular "they":

❤️ Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)
❤️William Shakespeare
❤️Jane Austen
❤️Charles Dickens

🍂 Examples through time:

"If anybody calls, tell them I'll be back at 6" - perfectly normal English for centuries!

📎 Shakespeare wrote (1594):

"There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / As if I were their well-acquainted friend"

🧡 Why it's brilliant:🧡

❤️ Fills a gap when gender is unknown
❤️ Smoother than "he/she"
❤️ Been natural to English speakers for centuries
❤️ Simpler than making up new pronouns

❗️ Fun fact: In 2019, "they" was so widely used as a singular pronoun that Merriam-Webster dictionary made it their Word of the Year!

🧡 Remember: Next time someone says singular "they" is incorrect, you can tell them (see what I did there? 🧡 ) that it's older than modern English itself!

@thinkenglish

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