&gt; If you adopt &#x27;they&#x27;, you have to either adopt plural verbs<p>Which we already do with semantically singular uses of the first-person and second-person grammatically-plural pronouns in English, so that&#x27;s not really a big deal. (And already do with semantically singular uses of &quot;they&quot;: its been &quot;adopted&quot; in English-as-actually used for over half a millennium.)