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doc: Add note on gender-neutral wording. 

Suggested by ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>.

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Add @item regarding
gender-neutral wording.
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@ -323,6 +323,12 @@ related to the hardware---e.g., use of different instruction set
extensions---or to the operating system kernel---e.g., reliance on
@code{uname} or @file{/proc} files.
@item
When writing documentation, please use gender-neutral wording when
referring to people, such as
@uref{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they, singular
``they''@comma{} ``their''@comma{} ``them''}, and so forth.
@end enumerate
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