Merriam-Webster's dictionary is adding a new entry to the definition of the pronoun “they”: a way to refer to a nonbinary individual, one who identifies as neither exclusively male nor female. It’s ...
Elle Moxley is the founder and executive director of the Marsha P. Johnson institute. Language is our battlefield. It is the arena where our struggle for recognition, acceptance, and justice plays out ...
Idaho’s Senate State Affairs Committee on Friday advanced two bills related to changing Idaho’s legal definition of the word “sex,” and protecting public employees from discipline if they refuse to ...
Included in a list of over 500 words and new meanings just added to the Merriam Webster dictionary is a new definition for the word "they" — specifically, as a singular pronoun used by people whose ...
SPRINGFIELD — Merriam-Webster has added definitions of “they” and “themself” as singular, gender-neutral pronouns to its online dictionary, throwing the weight of the 180-year-old dictionary behind ...
Idaho’s Senate State Affairs Committee on Friday advanced two bills related to changing Idaho’s legal definition of the word “sex,” and protecting public employees from discipline if they refuse to ...
Chapter 5 of Lindley Murray’s English Grammar (1795) begins thus: A PRONOUN is a word used instead of a noun, to avoid the too frequent repetition of the same word. The definition is useless: ...
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