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Subject:Re: He/She/They/It - Defending the Brits From:Roger A Tunsley <rtunsley -at- WORLD -dot- STD -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 9 Sep 1994 20:23:12 +0059
I am one of the "them" referred to and it is definitely -not- usual for
the British, at least in the circles that I frequent (neither too high
nor too low), to refer to a child as 'it." Although several other
terms have crossed my lips over the years.
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