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Originally Posted by m^a(t)h
umm. the address "he" stems from the bible and ten commandments as well as other early documents. You wouldnt replace "he" with "they" because "he" is singular, "they" is plural.
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I read it in a textbook on Biblical translation. People have a problem with the fact that the Bible was translated as "he," and thus it's politically incorrect, and "they" is evolving past being strictly plural. Whether it was grammatical trend speculation or a surfacing rule is impossible to tell.