Language change?

[firecat]

Language change note (or new-to-me language usage, anyway)

An article in Knitty had this: “They’re arranged in such a way that one can develop their brioche proficiency by working their way through the designs.“

I’ve never seen the pronoun ”one“ paired with “their“. I’ve always done it like this: “one can develop one’s proficiency…” I like it.

Comments

[pameladean]

If I recall correctly, the way you (and I) refer back to "one" was standard accepted English, but lots of people just naturally used "they" pronouns to refer back, and got corrected. But now it may, I hope, be considered to be correct to just do that.

P.

[firecat]

Yes, I think you recall correctly!