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Old 08-05-2006, 01:37 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Post [LL] Did Winston Churchill Use Singular "They"?

I was catching up on pop reading this morning -- specifically the July 31 edition of The Missoulian -- and in Dear Abby's column I found this quotation attributed to Winston Churchill, which Dear Abby offered as part of her...

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