Talk about belated recognition. At its meeting in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 7, the American Dialect Society voted to make the 600-year-old pronoun "they" their word of the year for 2015. Or more ...

Words matter — especially to those at the American Dialect Society. So it spoke volumes when the top linguists who make up the group voted to crown the singular pronoun "they" as the Word of the ...

While the big noise in the grammatical world these days is coming from the transgender community and its obsession with pronouns of choice — particularly its endorsement of “they” as a pronoun for a ...

Maybe you’ve been told not to use they as a singular pronoun or had a red pen strike through your writing when you've written something like "When someone studies grammar, they...". That’s not ...

This weeks “Letter from the Editor” addresses the changing use of the pronoun “they.” Therese Bottomly, editor and vice president of The Oregonian/OregonLive, reached out by email to Devin Grammon, a ...

This week, I was at a dinner party with a dozen or so accomplished journalists. There are many things I enjoy about hanging out with journalists, including (but in no way limited to): (a) they ask ...

Youth Radio’s Desmond Meagley doesn’t identify as as male or female. So when it comes to pronouns, people are often confused. When I tell someone my preferred pronouns are they/them/their, I never ...