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		sambeau on Dec 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On programming without malloc "are" And it's totally fine "They are" has been used in the way for hundreds of years.

derekp7 on Dec 5, 2013 [–]

Ah, I just found it on Wikipedia, in the article on singluar they...

"Though semantically singular or ambiguous, singular they remains morphologically and syntactically plural (e.g. it still takes plural forms of verbs)."

Thanks.

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