Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4999744-20131111062359/@comment-4057437-20131111093513

This has been argued over for centuries. There have been those who advocate using "they" as a gender neutral pronoun, regardless of the number of individuals involved, for centuries. English, being a living language (unlike some others), is evolving. More and more, shorter forms of expression are edging out longer ones. Texting has accelerated this dramatically. We expect that, in the end, "they" or an entirely new word, will completely replace "He or she".

"He or she" is clumsy in our opinion, (for what that's worth), and we have been replacing it with "they" for many moons, as it is more succinct and one has said anything about it to us.

Of course, if it becomes part of this WIKI's style guidelines, we will use "he or she" if we can find no way around it. :-(