&quot;They&quot; has been used as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun in English continuously for many centuries, starting before misguided lovers of Latin tried to impose a Latin-inspired rules on English.<p>The only problem the article here raises with &quot;they&quot; is that its historically not been used with a proper-named antecedent, but surely its a lot less disruptive to expand the use of singular &quot;they&quot; than to introduce a new pronoun.