(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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

A viral tweet criticizing a California professor’s policy on pronouns quickly escalated this week into a bomb threat that stirred faculty and students at California State University, Fresno, into a ...

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 ...