Using "Their" There

[mavarin]

Linked from Making Light:

"Jane Austen and other famous authors violate what everyone learned in their English class."

According to the article, the use of the word "their" as a singular posessive (e.g. "Each person brought their own book to class") goes all the way back to Chaucer, and has since been used by Shakespeare, C.S. Lewis and lots of

Comments

[st_jb]

Andy Rooney thought "their" was a good idea. I've got the book in which he mentioned that somewhere, but don't ask me to find it.

Please. I beg you. ;-)

Correction

[mavarin]

When I mentioned this to John last night, he asked, "Is there a petition I can sign?"