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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
[...]The current practice is to use the plural forms they, them and their, but the sound of subject-verb disagreement always makes me wince.[...]
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Just to highlight - as per the
link that I had posted earlier - use of they (etc.) is not only current practice but has a very long history of such use. You cannot disregard this practice as a new or transient whim.