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A gender neutral pronoun.

Saying "he/she" gets annoying after a while; using "he" (or "she") as the default pronoun carries unnecessary sexist connotations; using "they" as the pronoun when it already serves as the plural third-person pronoun just muddles the water.

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This kind of language change can't really be accomplished by fiat, so it makes sense to look for the direction the language is heading in and push. More and more we see people using "they" as a singular pronoun. But a large proportion of people find this usage strongly ungrammatical, which is preventing it from becoming mainstream. Eventually it will win out though.

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