Canadian Department of Justice: use “singular they”

Htt Language Log � Canadian Department of Justice: use “singular they”:for this alert to what may be a first 'official' recognition of singular 'they' for legal documentation. "A page at www.justice.gc.ca recommends that people drafting legislation should “consider using the third-person pronouns ‘they’, ‘their’, ‘them’, ‘themselves’ or ‘theirs’ to refer to a singular indefinite noun, to avoid the unnatural language that results from repeating the noun”."