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CrispyQ

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6. Years ago I got two applications for an American Express card in the mail on the same day.
Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 01:30 PM
Oct 2019

The regular green card was addressed to Miss CQ & the gold card app was addressed to Mr. CQ.

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Calling all grammar geeks and word nerds [View all] mfcorey1 Oct 2019 OP
The singular 'they' is quite old: Qutzupalotl Oct 2019 #1
What's new is adopting it as the original referring pronoun. Igel Oct 2019 #5
The generic pronoun has been a point of debate since the 80's B Stieg Oct 2019 #2
I do not like "they" being used as a singular pronoun! Informally, fine, but for the sake of emmaverybo Oct 2019 #3
Who uses zie, sie, ey, ve, etc? I haven't seen them before. brush Oct 2019 #4
"Zie plane, zie plane!" Tatoo exclaimed. yonder Oct 2019 #9
That's ok. I got a chuckle out of it. And it's appropriate since Tatoo's language... brush Oct 2019 #10
Years ago I got two applications for an American Express card in the mail on the same day. CrispyQ Oct 2019 #6
Total silliness. Fortunately, the English language has perfectly acceptable Glorfindel Oct 2019 #7
I frequently use "they" PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2019 #8
In our rush to surrender to tyranny of the extreme minority of the dermal depth deficiency afflicted aka-chmeee Oct 2019 #11
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