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The singular pronoun "they" has been named the Word of the Decade by the American Dialect Society (ADS). ADS members have been voting for a Word of the Year for the past 30 years, but this year they ...
Dave in Elkland, Pa., wrote to me recently about pronouns ending in “self” — myself, yourself and so on — and how annoying they can be at times. “‘Myself,’ in particular, drives me near distraction,” ...
The singular pronoun "they" is the word of the decade, according to The American Dialect Society. Formed more than 130 years ago, the American Dialect Society, along with organizations like ...
On Sept. 17, 2019, Merriam Webster expanded the word “They” to include a “Single person whose gender identity is non-binary.” The dictionary publisher says that “New words are a happy fact of life for ...
American linguists have named the singular pronoun “they” their word of the decade. For the past 30 years, the American Dialect Society, which was founded more than 130 years ago, has selected words ...