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MacKay on singular they (Discussion)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Trevor Pateman
Trevor Pateman
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Education Development Building, University of Sussex
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Language in Society , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , December 1982, pp. 437 - 438
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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