Over the course of the last few centuries, English grammarians and linguists of both past and present have set out on deep-rooted, grammatical journey to unearth a befitting gender-neutral, third-person-singular, animate (human) pronoun to cement and bridge the gap in Standard American English. From the inception of English and the process of it becoming a standardized language, a cavernous sinkhole has been living within in our pronoun system and has proved itself quite problematic and steep for the many who utilize English as an influential instrument to communicate, verbally, orally and in writing. By extension, writing in his novel Revising the Rules: Traditional Grammar and Modern Linguistics (Second Edition), published in 2000, Professor Brock Haussamen addresses this problem within our pronoun system, and acknowledges the most efficient elucidations that grammarians have developed to improve the quality of our language as we implement it into our everyday discourse and writing. On one …show more content…
What Haussamen really means by this is that both indefinite pronouns have their own individual workings that are perfect for the fulfillment of the functions they are responsible for. Nevertheless, when it comes to finding the CHOSEN gender-neutral, third-person-singular, animate (human) pronoun, we may be better off switching between the two and differentiate them from context to context as can be seen in examples from early modern English, spoken discourse, past and modern literature, and in academic writing, which Haussamen details and exhibits in this chapter soon after the presentation of this