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		jdashg on Jan 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Goodbye, Clean Code It started in the 14th century. Wikipedia has a good article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

_oqcu on Jan 12, 2020 [–]

Fair enough, but at least they had plural you back then: thou.

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