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You see, there's a difference between our claims. You actually have people fervently trying to prove your point, while I do not, because if yours was not the primary usage throughout the history of the English language, my claim is correct by default. Nobody made any attempt to write an article about the use of "he" in the eleventh century, because there's no reason to.
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Actually, Bodine wrote her paper back in 1975 before the debate was actually becoming a debate, for the purposes of explaining what was happening. It was already accepted that prescriptive grammarians attacked singular "they", and therefore "he" became accepted. Her article is actually considering other things, but her input and quotations are useful to me nevertheless, because it shows that scholars don't need to debate that point. They have it in history.
EDIT: I don't even consider that a good argument. The fact that nobody made an attempt to write an article about the use of "he" in the eleventh century could just as easily imply that they didn't because there was no usage to write about. All it is is a fact, with no specific connotations either way.