Royal they. English doesn't have a singular they for a specific entity. If you're referring to a specific entity as a plurality, "they" are that plurality, the representative of the nation. Same as the royal "we". The people memeing on pronouns saying "Your Holiness/Your Holinesses" aren't actually that far off.
Royal they. English doesn't have a singular they for a specific entity. If you're referring to a specific entity as a plurality, "they" are that plurality, the representative of the nation. Same as the royal "we". The people memeing on pronouns saying "Your Holiness/Your Holinesses" aren't actually that far off.
I know it doesn't, and you know it doesn't, but there are thousands of very loud and very stupid communists who are absolutely convinced it does.