It is certainly the most challenging change in language I have dealt with in my lifetime. Ever more people, rejecting the gender binary, are requesting to be referred to as they rather than as he or ...
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People say the darndest things about they/them pronouns. When I tell someone that my pronouns are they/them/their, I never know what to expect. Sometimes people say okay and move on, but other times, ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. They is here. Two major style manuals are now allowing the singular use of “they” in certain circumstances. While this is a ...
Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it. A protester at a rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 6, 2022. In 2019, I finished ...
While standing in line for the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT a few years ago, Hex, now 28, scrolled through Twitter to help pass time, pausing to look at “ze/zis” listed in someone’s bio. Hex’s wife ...
Copy editors might seem like stick-in-the-mud traditionalists when it comes to language change, but when I attended the American Copy Editors Society’s annual conference in Pittsburgh a couple of ...
A surge in searches for the definition of an old-school pronoun signals a new, nonbinary meaning. By Amy Harmon Merriam-Webster announced the pronoun “they” as its word of the year on Tuesday, marking ...