The Mary Rose

[Fnaar]

What the Tudor for pedant?

Ye Olde Pedante

 

[PK99]

I know: I just get a bit frustrated at English lacking a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun. The rather formal "one" isn't in common use.

They IS the gender neutral third person singular pronoun:

Eg from wiki:
Somebody left their umbrella in the office. Would they please collect it?

"But a journalist should not be forced to reveal their sources"

 

[srw]

They IS the gender neutral third person singular pronoun:

Eg from wiki:
Somebody left their umbrella in the office. Would they please collect it?

"But a journalist should not be forced to reveal their sources"

• "Eche of theym sholde . . . make theymselfe redy."— Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon (c. 1489)[31]
• "If a person is born of a . . . gloomy temper . . . they cannot help it."— Chesterfield, Letter to his son (1759);[17] quoted in Fowler's.[18]

 

[Crackle]

Here's the BBC report with a view which actually makes it look better than they managed on the TV report. Still looks like an unfinished matchstick project though.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-36802829