[aisle] Totally off subject

Kathy Garneau kgarneau at bannockburnschool.org
Wed May 15 08:13:21 CDT 2019


*They* is used as a nonbinary singular pronoun. Webster
<https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbinary-they>
includes
it now.

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 9:42 PM Donna Miner via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hi, I'm kind of a grammar nut and I need to know if “they” are teaching
> the I or me wording differently than I learned it back in the 60’s and 70’s.
> I learned if you use it in a sentence singularly, you use it with more
> than one. Examples:
> I went to the store/Tom and I went to the store.
> Could you make me a sandwich?/ Could you make Mary and me a sandwich?
>
> I hope it’s ok to ask this on this list serve. It is driving me crazy! I
> mean teachers are using the I and me wrong (according to me)!!!
> Thank you!!
>
>
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