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Re:On programming without malloc by sambeau on Thursday December 05, 2013 @06:48AM (#6853923)
"are"

And it's totally fine "They are" has been used in the way for hundreds of years.

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Re:On programming without malloc by derekp7 on Thursday December 05, 2013 @11:40AM (#6855289)
Ah, I just found it on Wikipedia, in the article on singluar they...

"Though semantically singular or ambiguous, singular they remains morphologically and syntactically plural (e.g. it still takes plural forms of verbs)."

Thanks.

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