Editing Singular they (section)

=== Sources ===
'''Sources of original examples'''
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* {{cite web |last=Atkinson |first=Nancy |title=A One Way One Person Mission to Mars |date=4 March 2008 |url=https://www.universetoday.com/13037/a-one-way-one-person-mission-to-mars/ |access-date=17 January 2014 |archive-date=9 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209042701/http://www.universetoday.com/13037/a-one-way-one-person-mission-to-mars/ |url-status=live }}
* {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Austen|1814}} |title=Mansfield Park |last=Austen |first=Jane |author-link=Jane Austen |url=https://archive.org/details/mansfieldpark08austgoog |date=1833 |publisher=Richard Bentley }}
* {{cite journal |journal=The Liberal Magazine |publisher=Liberal Publication Department (Great Britain) |last=Bagehot |first=Walter |author-link=Walter Bagehot |volume=22 |title=Speech in Portsmouth, 10 November 1910 |year=1910 |publication-date=1915 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Yo4AQAAMAAJ |access-date=6 January 2017 |archive-date=13 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213105917/https://books.google.com/books?id=0Yo4AQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
* {{cite book|last1= Barzun |first1= Jacques |date=1985 |title=Simple and Direct |publisher=Harper and Row}}
* {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Bush|1991}} |title = A Study of Presidential State of the Union Addresses: The Sells and Arguments that are Used |last1= Cuellar |first1= Jessica |date=2008|others=Oklahoma State University |isbn=978-0-549-99288-2 }}
* {{cite book |title=Werner, a Tragedy |last=Byron |first=Baron George Gordon |author-link=Lord Byron |date=1823 |publisher=A. and W. Galignani |url=https://archive.org/details/werneratragedy00byrogoog |via=Internet Archive }}
* {{cite book |ref= {{SfnRef|Cable|1879}} |title= Old Creole Days |last1= Cable |first1= George Washington |author-link1= George Washington Cable |url= http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10234 |date= 1907 |orig-year= 1879 |access-date= 9 March 2014 |archive-date= 2 July 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140702092741/http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10234 |url-status= live }}
* {{cite web |ref= {{SfnRef|Canadian government |2013}} |url= https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/W-3.pdf |title= Canadian War Veterans Allowance Act (1985) as amended 12 December 2013 |author= <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= 12 December 2013 |publisher= [[Government of Canada]] |id= R.S.C., 1985, c. W-3 |access-date= 19 April 2014 |archive-date= 19 April 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140419182639/http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/W-3.pdf |url-status= live }}
* {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Canadian government |2014}} |url=https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/SOR-2002-227.pdf |title=Immigration and RefugeeProtection Regulations (2002) as amended 6 February 2014 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=6 February 2014 |publisher=[[Government of Canada]] |id=SOR/2002-227 |access-date=19 April 2014 |archive-date=19 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419182919/http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/SOR-2002-227.pdf |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |ref= {{SfnRef|Canadian government|2015}} |url= http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/legis-redact/legistics/p1p30.html |title= Themself or Themselves? |author= <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= 7 January 2015 |publisher= [[Government of Canada]] |access-date= 26 April 2016 |quote= Use ''themselves'' as the reflexive/intensive pronoun to refer to an indefinite gender-neutral noun or pronoun that is the subject of the sentence and avoid ''themself''. |archive-date= 1 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160601014554/http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/legis-redact/legistics/p1p30.html |url-status= dead }}
* {{cite book|ref={{SfnRef|Caxton|1489}}|title=The right plesaunt and goodly historie of the foure sonnes of Aymon|date=1884|last1=Caxton|first1=William|editor1-last=Richardson|editor1-first=Octavia|publisher=[[Early English Text Society]]|url=https://archive.org/details/rightplesauntno4400caxtuoft|pages=38f|access-date=11 January 2014|orig-year=c.&nbsp;1489}}
* {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Chaucer|1395}} |chapter=The Pardoner's Prologue |title=The Riverside Chaucer |last=Chaucer |first=Geoffrey |author-link=Geoffrey Chaucer |editor1-last=Benson |editor1-first=Larry Dean |isbn=978-0-199-55209-2 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E4DXD7Sk7WcC |orig-year=1395 |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=6 January 2017 |archive-date=13 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213105917/https://books.google.com/books?id=E4DXD7Sk7WcC |url-status=live }}
* {{cite book |chapter= Letters to his Son, CCCLV, dated 27 April 27, 1759 |title= The Works of Lord Chesterfield |last= Chesterfield |first= Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of |author-link= Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=g-k_AAAAYAAJ |date= 1759 |publisher= Harper |publication-date= 1845 |access-date= 6 January 2017 |archive-date= 13 December 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231213105917/https://books.google.com/books?id=g-k_AAAAYAAJ |url-status= live }}
* {{cite book|last=Coleridge|first=Samuel|editor-last=Coleridge|editor-first=Ernest|date=1895|title=Anima Poetæ: From the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge|location=London, England|publisher=William Heinemann|url=https://archive.org/details/animapoetfromu00coleuoft}}
* {{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=Chris |last2=Postal |first2=Paul Martin |year=2012 |title=Imposters: A Study of Pronominal Agreement |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0262016889}}
* {{cite book|title= Prodigal Daughter |last= Davids |date=2010|publisher= Steeple Hill |isbn=978-1-426-88577-8}}
* {{cite book |title= The Family Instructor |last1= Defoe |first1= Daniel |author-link= Daniel Defoe |url= https://archive.org/details/familyinstructo00defogoog |date= 1816 |publisher= Brightly and Childs }}
* {{cite book |first1=Joseph P. |last1=Fries |date=1969 |orig-year=1940 |editor1-last=Bolton |editor1-first=W. F. |editor2-last=Crystal |chapter=The inflections and syntax of present-day American English with especial reference to social differences or class dialects: The report of an investigation financed by the National Council of Teachers of English and supported by the Modern Language Association and the Linguistic Society of America |title=The English Language, Volume 2: Essays by Linguistics and Men of Letters 1858–1964 |publisher=Cambridge University Press Archive |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rB07AAAAIAAJ |isbn=978-0-451-14076-0 |access-date=6 January 2017 |archive-date=13 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213105917/https://books.google.com/books?id=rB07AAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news|work=The Guardian|first=Shane|last=Hickey|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/10/the-innovators-the-app-promising-the-perfect-fitting-bra|title=The innovators: the app promising the perfect-fitting bra|date=10 January 2015|access-date=6 January 2017|archive-date=27 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227091857/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/10/the-innovators-the-app-promising-the-perfect-fitting-bra|url-status=live}}
* {{cite news|work=The Listener |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |last=Hislop |first=Ian |volume=111 |title=Ian Hislop |date=1984|title-link=Ian Hislop }}
* {{cite book|ref={{SfnRef|Huxley|1868}}|title= A Liberal Education |last1= Huxley |first1= Thomas Henry |author-link=Thomas Henry Huxley |isbn=978-1-425-35760-3|date=2005 |publisher= Kessinger Publishing}}
* {{cite book |first=Joseph P. |last=Lash |date=1981 |orig-year=1971 |title=Eleanor and Franklin |publisher=Penguin Group Canada |isbn=978-0-451-14076-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RerFcT6cu6IC |access-date=6 January 2017 |archive-date=13 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213105917/https://books.google.com/books?id=RerFcT6cu6IC |url-status=live }}; quoted in ''Reader's Digest'', 1983, as an example of its awkwardness when referring to both sexes.
* {{cite book
 |ref          = {{SfnRef|Paley|1825}}
 |title        = The Works of William Paley: The principles of moral and political philosophy
 |last1        = Paley
 |first1       = William
 |author-link1 = William Paley
 |last2        = Paley
 |first2       = Edmund
 |last3        = Paxton
 |first3       = James
 |url          = https://archive.org/details/workswilliampal01paxtgoog
 |date         = 1825
 |publisher    = C. and J. Rivington and J. Nunn
}}
* {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Ruskin|1866}} |title=The Works of John Ruskin: The Crown of Wild Olive |last=Ruskin |first=John |author-link=John Ruskin |url=https://archive.org/details/worksjohnruskin56ruskgoog |date=1873 |orig-year=1866 |publisher=George Allen }}
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* {{cite book|title= The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton
|last1= Shakespeare|first1=W.
|last2= Boswell |first2=J.
|last3= Farmer |first3=R.
|last4= Rowe |first4=N.
|last5= Steevens |first5=G.
|last6= Malone |first6=E.
|last7= Capell |first7=E.
|last8= Johnson |first8=S.
|last9= Pope |first9=A.
|url= https://archive.org/details/playsandpoemswi22rowegoog
|date= 1821|publisher= F. C. and J. Rivington|ref={{SfnRef|Shakespeare|1821}}}}
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* {{cite book
 |ref          = {{SfnRef|Shakespeare|1599}}
 |title        = Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
 |last1        = Shakespeare
 |first1       = W.
 |last2        = Loffelt
 |first2       = Antonie Cornelis
 |url          = https://books.google.com/books?id=-nJZAAAAcAAJ
 |date         = 1867
 |publisher    = J. L. Beijers en J. van Boekhoven
 |access-date  = 6 January 2017
 |archive-date = 13 December 2023
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20231213105918/https://books.google.com/books?id=-nJZAAAAcAAJ
 |url-status   = live
}}
* {{cite news|work=The Telegraph |first=Alex |last=Spillius |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1949789/US-elections-Hillary-Clinton-about-to-drop-out.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1949789/US-elections-Hillary-Clinton-about-to-drop-out.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title= US elections: Hillary Clinton 'about to drop out' |date=12 May 2008}}{{cbignore}}
* {{cite book |title=The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in 22 Volumes: Vanity fair |last1=Thackeray |first1=William Makepeace |author-link=William Makepeace Thackeray |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOk8AAAAYAAJ |date=1868 |publisher=Smith, Elder |access-date=6 January 2017 |archive-date=13 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213110418/https://books.google.com/books?id=aOk8AAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}
* {{cite book |chapter=On Lett's Diary |title=The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray |last1=Thackeray |first1=William Makepeace |author-link=William Makepeace Thackeray |volume=20 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t2Y6AQAAMAAJ |date=1869 |publisher=Smith, Elder |access-date=6 January 2017 |archive-date=13 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213110419/https://books.google.com/books?id=t2Y6AQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
* {{cite book|last1= Weiss|first1= R. E.|last2= Kaplan|first2= S. A.|last3= Fair|first3= W. R.|title= Management of Prostate Diseases|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JK2a4Mmb-84C|date= 2004|publisher= Professional Communications Inc.|location= Cambridge; New York|isbn= 978-1-884-73595-0|access-date= 6 January 2017|archive-date= 13 December 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231213110420/https://books.google.com/books?id=JK2a4Mmb-84C|url-status= live}}
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