Resources Discussing the Use of Singular "They"

Not being a linguist, I don't usually write posts detailing linguistic matters. This post is a reference list of good reading rounded up by my colleagues rather than a discussion of the use of the singular pronoun they. I am for the widespread use of they; the following items explain the issue much better than I can.

• "Dogma vs. Evidence: Singular They," from the blog Lingua Franca of the Chronicle of Higher Education

• "Everybody Has Their Own Opinion About the Singular They" [PDF from the former magazine Editorial Eye; note that there is a compilation of essays from the magazine available in book form, as Stet Again: More Tricks of the Trade for Publications People: Selections from the Editorial Eye]

• "Line 'Em Up, Knock 'Em Down," from John E. McIntyre's blog You Don't Say for the Baltimore Sun

• "Question from ACES2015: Is It Time to Accept ‘They’ as a Singular Pronoun?" from Pointer.org

• "Singular 'They' Is Old, Logical, and Grammatical," from the blog The Lousy Linguist

• "Singular They: The Pronoun That Came in from the Cold," from the journal Vocabula Review [For access, you must either obtain the article through interlibrary loan or purchase a subscription to Vocabula Review]

• "Spelling, Usage and the Singular 'They,' " from Visual Thesaurus

• Conscious Style Guide

• "They," from the blog Sesquiotica

• "They and the Gender-Neutral Pronoun Dilemma," from the blog Arrant Pedantry

• "The 'Singular They' Articles," compiled by Gael Spivak
  

Dear readers, if you have links that you think should be added here, please leave them in comments. Thank you.