That the singular ‘they’ predates the singular’you’ by a long time? Both Shakespeare and Chaucer used it. But they’d never be so gauche as to use ‘you’ for a single person.
Please use that fact to. remind the next obnoxious pedant who refuses to acknowledge someone’s non-binary identity.
—- The mammoths/pyramid fact is one I learn and forget repeatedly and it blows my mind everytime And that cleopatra lived closer to the time of my birth than when the pyramids were built.
my baa baa black sheep tune isn’t quite the same as ABC. British childhood?
We used to sing the letters to Mary had a little lamb specifically to teach my kid that ‘Elemnopee’ wasn’t a word 🤣
Eta my personal favorite is please and thank you because where I live thank you is abbreviated as tq, and it just makes so much sense to me. I can't remember the last time I saw the words written.