When 'They' Became 'Him'

We had this discussion on my blog once already.  But anyhow, since it's one of my personal grammar crusades, here's another article on the history of using “they/their/them” as the first-person singular instead of the contemporary but much more awkward “he/she” convention. 

…for most of the existence of the English language, ‘they’ was used
as the accepted singular gender-neutral pronoun. The use of ‘it’ was
reserved for objects, as it is today, but for people the pronoun of
choice was they/their/them.

So how did this all change? Courtesy of the English Parliament.”

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