Re: His/Her v. Their

Subject: Re: His/Her v. Their
From: sphilip <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com>
To: Becca <becca -at- di -dot- org>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:20:29 +0700

'Their' - absolutely.

I would never use 'his/her' except under duress.


Best

Phil
http://applehelpwriter.wordpress.com

On 26 Oct 2012, at 21:08, Becca <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> Some documents I'm editing of necessity give procedures in third person rather than the assumed (you) second person. There's no way around this.
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> In the document I'm editing, they use His/Her. My inclination is to use "their" - comments?
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