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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 ...

Whether intentional or not, the way we speak is political. I'm not talking about saying out loud who we voted for or what we think about health care — I'm talking about something far more basic: how ...

Formed more than 130 years ago, the American Dialect Society, along with organizations like Merriam-Webster dictionary, have chosen relevant words to represent a year a whole. In December, ...

Merriam-Webster's 2019 Word of the Year is "they" — the singular pronoun that has gained popularity as a way to refer to nonbinary people who identify as neither exclusively male nor female. Subscribe ...

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,” ...

I, he, him, her, it, me, she, them, they, us, we, you. These are now some of the most controversial words in the English language. Little did we realize as elementary school children, that such a ...

I and several readers were communicating recently about the practice of putting “I,” “me” or “my” first in a compound-noun phrase. In fact, two back-to-back emails posed the same question: Isn’t it ...

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 ...