[nesfa-reading-group] fussing over singular "they"

David G. Grubbs dggrubbs at gmail.com
Mon Jun 10 09:08:45 EDT 2024


Gloria,

I'm not sure what you are looking at, but the headers of Chip's message say
it went only to "reading-group at nesfa.org".


On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 9:06 AM Gloria Lucia Albasi <trebbiana61 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Chip: was this meant to go to @Reading-Group instead of @NESFA-Active ?
>
> G
>
> On Jun 10, 2024, at 7:54 AM, cjhi newcastle2.com <cjhi at newcastle2.com>
> wrote:
>
> 
> I went looking for something completely different in the NESFA Standing
> Rules and found the following annotation:
>
> *[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.]*
>
> which means that a majority of the club agreed 45 years ago to restore the
> long-standing practice.
>
> /CHip
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