When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

[DaveM]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 15:57:14 -0500, Terry Hancock
<hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:

>In a Texas dialect, "their" is construed to mean "singular third person
>of indeterminate gender". It's considered rude to use "it" to apply to
>a sentient, and "his or her" is "PC" (and therefore a great sin ;-) ).

Working in a hospital, it always jars when a patient of unknown sex is
referred to as "It". I always use they/them/their, so it's not unique to
Texas.


DaveM