Can You Use “They” for One Person?

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  This is an All ears English podcast.

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  Can you use they for one person?

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  Welcome to the All ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times.

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  Are you feeling stuck with your English?

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  We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection,

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  not perfection with your American hosts.

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  Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Wiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English Adventurer.

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  Coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA.

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  Do you get confused when you hear native speakers use they and not refer to a specific gender?

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  There are actually five reasons we might do this in English.

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  Get all five of them today.

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  Hey Lindsay, how are you?

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  I'm doing pretty well today.

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  Aubrey, the sun is shining in Denver as usual.

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  Nice, it's actually raining in Phoenix, which is very rare for us.

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  Yeah, that's very rare.

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  That's crazy.

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  I love it.

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