Singular &#x27;they&#x27; is one of the most natural changes to language I&#x27;ve ever been aware of. Certainly more natural than the &#x27;he or she&#x27; malarkey people (and don&#x27;t think I don&#x27;t notice the precedent given to he) have been forcing on students in the name of better conforming to a nonexistent English grammar, that we only pretend exists so we can give people shit when they fail to remember when they should put it on.