Why is “anyone” a single noun for groups?

Since “anyone” is singular, the prototypically correct verb choice in a sentence is “he is” (or “she is”)

If anyone cares to join me in this campaign, now or in future, he is most welcome.

However, picking a pronoun (either “he” or “she”) in such in such instances can be seen as exclusionary if not overtly sexist, especially in contexts where the group of people that makes up “anyone” is actually comprised of people of more than one gender.

If someone cares to join me in this

campaign both now or in future, he or she is most welcome.

To avoid this problem, especially in spoken English, most native speakers will opt for singular “they” in this context instead.

If anyone cares to join me in this campaign, either now or in future, they are most welcome.

Singularization is picking up in written English though.

AP Stylebook (an authority source for journalistic style in the United States) – infamous for being especially slow to update style rules to reflect changing usages – finally put out guidance on limited use cases where even the AP finds singular “they” appropriate.

What is the difference between whether the question is either or when the question is given to “whether”? Yes or No? As a native speaker, my instinct is that they are more or less the same. Since we are at a higher speed than the media, I can speak English.

Is it possible that either or if you say “whether”, and are optimistic that you will join the campaign? – but honestly that’s a very subtle distinction, and I won’t bat an eyelash either way. What are the different options to put

your money?

Is it quite a statement, or a statement, or a phrase? Getting dash for short distance usually means running in the sense you’re using, and specifically running a relatively short distance. Is it possible to take away some of the success of 200m dash or 100m dash in Olympics? (Though other meanings exist also for “dash”; e.g. What is a small amount of something in a

recipe.) So you might dash in a store, for example, if you were literally going to run in very quickly from across the parking lot. But even in that case, “dash” would be a bit uncommon. Should “run in” be more typical?

If the phrase you’re looking for is dive in? From Merriam-Webster: to

plunge into our subject example sentence (from

MC).