Why Keep Searching When It’s Already Their? Reconsidering Everybody’s Pronoun Problem
Alleen Pace Nilsen · The English Journal · 2001
Discusses the logic, elegance, and history of using they, them, and their as singular indefinite pronouns. Notes that, as a solution to the pronoun problem, the strength of this solution is its vagueness. Offers numerous real-life examples from publications or broadcasts and lists why it is counterproductive for English teachers to exclude this usage from the pronoun system they teach.