• Flying Squid
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    131 year ago

    'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should o’erhear the speech.

    • Hamlet, Act III, Scene 3

    There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me As if I were their well-acquainted friend

    • The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 3

    Sounds like the gender was known.

    • diprount_tomato
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      -121 year ago

      First one is plural, second one is refering to what I said in my previous comment

      • Flying Squid
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        161 year ago

        No, both are the use of the singular ‘they’ with gender. Read them more closely.

        • diprount_tomato
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          -31 year ago

          First one talks about mothers in general, second one refers to being a friend of someone