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"One size fits all
January 6, 2008
Baltimore, a city that for years clung to the word "espantoon" to describe what the rest of the world calls a "nightstick," has always gone its own way with the language. Now comes an innovation, out of the city's middle schools, that offers a solution to one of the more annoying aspects of English.
That's the pronoun you use when referring to someone else. It might be "he," or it might be "she," but if you don't know, it gets complicated or cumbersome. Sometimes you're stuck with that "he or she" business that saps the energy out of just about any sentence."