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This is an awesome TIL. I'm tempted to take a stab at introducing "thou" into my daily verbiage. I am wholly aware I'd sound like a pretentious prat, but still... :-)
I do it when people complain like this about singular they. There's a bunch of literature from the time of teachers complaining about singular you the same way these people complain about singular they. One of my favorite things to bring up and watch the smoke come out of their ears as they scramble to justify themselves.