(RNS) — Writing last week in The New York Times, linguistics professor John McWhorter waxed enthusiastic about the advent of “they” as our all-purpose third-person-singular pronoun. As in, for example ...

On Tuesday, Merriam-Webster selected its word of the year, not some viral neologism like post-truth or selfie but a word that has been around since the Middle Ages: the pronoun they. Pronouns are ...

See anything wrong with that sentence? Most people probably don’t, but there is a problem with it and, for me, the problem is eye-opening. Here’s the issue: If you want to be as proper and correct as ...

Editorial writer Steven Macoy says American leaders across the political spectrum consistently fail to use plain, accurate language.

A student raises her hand to contribute in Megan Foster's third grade class, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Accusing Florida of “dangerous political theater,” ...

CNN wants you to take “neopronouns” seriously—so much so that on Saturday, it published an 1,800-word-long “Guide to Neopronouns.” The article promotes pronoun activist Dennis Baron’s 2020 book, “What ...

Employees at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Maryland were given a new pronoun usage guide that lists dozens of pronouns include "aerself" and "faerself" while staffers navigate a recent inclusive ID policy ...

“Every outfit I tried on was either too casual, too loud or too frumpy.” A funny thing about language: When you use it without thinking, you usually do just fine. It’s only when you stop and question ...

Desks are arranged in a classroom at an elementary school in Nesquehoning, Pa., March 11, 2021. A federal judge Friday will hear arguments in an attempt by a transgender teacher and a nonbinary ...