tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248881149749925934.post8026502965441656542..comments2024-01-02T10:09:58.744-08:00Comments on Preaching to the choir: Pet Peeve #772Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12429147325673256508noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248881149749925934.post-85643550750060498752012-01-25T07:02:41.044-08:002012-01-25T07:02:41.044-08:00Seconding the Oxford comma. Also, may I rant a mo...Seconding the Oxford comma. Also, may I rant a moment about the "journalistic They?" There is almost nothing that irks me more than this: "When reached by phone, the witness said they would testify if compelled to." I'm sorry, but THEY is PLURAL, and should only refer back to a PLURAL antecedent. <br /><br />I am not sure when all Grammar Caution and Propriety was thrown to the far winds and the Universal Pronoun "he" was discarded to dispense with the admittedly unwieldy "his or her," but I lament it almost daily. <br /><br />(Which is how often I pick up the newspaper and read examples of this egregious assault on The Language.) Urk.Nancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17627214346956206283noreply@blogger.com