🔥 Mind-Blowing English Fact: "They" Was ALWAYS Singular Too!Ever been told that using "they" for one person is wrong or new? Well, time to drop some historical truth!
❗️☕️ Here's the tea: Singular "they" has been rocking the English language since... the 14th century! Yes, you read that right - that's over
700 years!📚 Famous writers who used singular "they":❤️ Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)
❤️William Shakespeare
❤️Jane Austen
❤️Charles Dickens
🍂 Examples through time:"If anybody calls, tell them I'll be back at 6" - perfectly normal English for centuries!
📎 Shakespeare wrote (1594):
"There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / As if I were their well-acquainted friend"🧡 Why it's brilliant:🧡❤️ Fills a gap when gender is unknown
❤️ Smoother than "he/she"
❤️ Been natural to English speakers for centuries
❤️ Simpler than making up new pronouns
❗️ Fun fact: In 2019, "they" was so widely used as a singular pronoun that Merriam-Webster dictionary made it their
Word of the Year!🧡 Remember: Next time someone says singular "they" is incorrect, you can tell them (see what I did there?
🧡 ) that it's older than modern English itself!
@thinkenglish ✅ 