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s/driver/documentation/s/driver/documentation/Posted Jul 6, 2010 11:49 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576)In reply to: s/driver/documentation/ by sorpigal Parent article: A line in the sand for graphics drivers
>"They" is also often used as a neutral form but it is incorrect (ungrammatical) when used to refer to a singular entity.
Simply wrong. There is no reason to support this assertion; it's a modern invention with no reasoning behind it - simply an arbitrary decision by a handful of grammatical prescriptivists who choose to ignore the large corpus of historical English text, not to mention the overwhelming current usage.
Since we mostly hear it coming from Americans, I conjecture that it may originate in Strunk and White (a highly questionable but ubiquitous American grammar guide).
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