Brief notice: singular they run wild

A note from Ben Zimmer with this remarkable anaphora in a TPM headline: Kanye West is taking their “feud” to Jimmy Kimmel’s show tomorrow This is singular their with a proper name (of someone whose sex is known) as antecedent. Such examples have turned up on Language Log every so often. For example: from Geoff Pullum … Continue reading Brief notice: singular they run wild