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By L. Paterson

This learn considers using they and he for universal reference in post-2000 written British English. The research is framed via a attention of language-internal components, comparable to syntactic contract, and language-external elements, which come with conventional grammatical prescriptivism and the language reforms because of second-wave feminism.

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