I’m not a native speaker, but as far as I understood, for singular objects and animals “it” was used. Why use “they” for individual people then?
In: 1400
This is a common misconception. ‘They’ has been used for singular for decades, if not longer. For example.
Mom: hey Cynthia, did anyone deliver a package this morning?
Cynthia: they were here earlier but i missed them.
Cynthia doesn’t know if it was a man or woman so they and them is used. They wouldn’t say ‘it’
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