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The last meeting of the reading group is where we got into a series of arguments over pronouns that weren't as many of us were taught in school (lo these many years ago...); I posted the reference to point out that the singular "they" was not just a recent
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> reading-group <reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org> on behalf of David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 10, 2024 9:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NESFA Reading Group <reading-group@lists.nesfa.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [nesfa-reading-group] fussing over singular "they"</font>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I'm not sure what you are looking at, but the headers of Chip's message say it went only to "<a href="mailto:reading-group@nesfa.org">reading-group@nesfa.org</a>".</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 9:06 AM Gloria Lucia Albasi <<a href="mailto:trebbiana61@gmail.com">trebbiana61@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Chip: was this meant to go to @Reading-Group instead of @NESFA-Active ?
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<blockquote type="cite">On Jun 10, 2024, at 7:54 AM, cjhi <a href="http://newcastle2.com" target="_blank">
newcastle2.com</a> <<a href="mailto:cjhi@newcastle2.com" target="_blank">cjhi@newcastle2.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I went looking for something completely different in the NESFA Standing Rules and found the following annotation:</div>
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<i>[In the last sentence of (f) above, "their" was originally "his". This is the first of numerous such changes (mostly not noted separately), nearly all made by a global "sex change" amendment in 12/79.]</i></div>
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which means that a majority of the club agreed 45 years ago to restore the long-standing practice.</div>
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/CHip<br>
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