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For the sake of society, we must let the English language evolve beyond genderIt’s been decades since I was a copyeditor, but I haven’t given up my long, trusting relationship with the Chicago Manual of Style. So when I learned that Chicago, along with the Associated Press (AP) had accepted the use of “they” as a singular pronoun last year, I was ready to go along. Not everyone was, though. As gender-neutral pronouns gained wider currency, accounts of a “war over pronouns” struck a weirdly familiar note, and I realized: I’ve been here before—twice.