They 962806 218468430 2008-06-10T20:00:55Z Jupiter Optimus Maximus 6536516 Removed creepy vandalism. {{Otheruses4|the English personal pronoun|other uses|They (disambiguation)}} {{Wiktionarypar|they|them|their|theirs}} <p>'''''They''''' ({{IPAEng|ðeɪ}}) is a [[grammatical person|third-person]], [[personal pronoun]] ([[Nominative case|subject case]]) in [[Modern English]].</p> {{Modern English personal pronouns (table)}} ==Usage== The [[singular they|"singular" ''they'']] is the use of this pronoun, where ''they'' is used as a [[gender-neutral]] [[Grammatical number|singular]] rather than plural pronoun. The correctness of this usage is disputed. ==Etymology== {{Middle English personal pronouns (table)}} ==They "The People"== Taken from "You know what "they" say..." * "They" refers to the masses of those who are among the pop culture. "They" quote sayings of individuals who could put complex events in to understandable context; believing that what "they" have just quoted would justify an event or action which had just occurred. * "They" may also refer to the government or society at large, such as when a paranoid conspiracy theorist proclaims "They're out to get me, man" or "They're watching me right now." The [[logical]] position against this usage is based on the principle of [[methodological individualism]] - the obvious fact about the [[reality]] of humans that various actions such as "thinking", "saying", "feeling", "knowing", "believing" or any other [[physiological]] functions can only be done by individual humans. ==See also== * [[English personal pronouns]] * [[Generic antecedents]] * [[Them]] * [[Possessive pronoun]] * [[Subjective pronoun]] * [[Objective pronoun]] {{Modern English personal pronouns}} [[ce:Уьш]]