The current appropriate term, I believe, is " they/them". Oops, sorry, wrong argument.When talking about my boat I tend to feel yacht sounds uppity/gives a wrong impression of an old sailing boat so I use the term "old sailing boat". Am alone in feeling that the term yacht gives the wrong impression of a small sailing boat to the general public?
Possibly correct argument but wrong location !!The current appropriate term, I believe, is " they/them". Oops, sorry, wrong argument.
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Is it a peculiarly British thing, this fear of being thought pretentious?
I mean, does it really matter what people think about trivial things when there are far more important things that ought to be being thought about; and talked about?i hd a yachtshe was a brilliant sailing boat