12-14-2004, 05:00 PM
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News came out of the blue
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She's they until you acknowledge her
I found this very beautiful and subtle example illustrating the use of singular-antecedent they in a passage (here) written (or more likely dictated — this sounds like speech) by the distinguished BBC Africa correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton (photograph here) for the...
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/001721.html
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