For the uninitiated, it will come as a bit of a surprise that the familiar pronoun "they" has been named Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2019. No longer just another form of "them," which we ...

A May 9 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) suggests an ancient text invokes modern-day language about gender identity. “In the Bible, demons refer to themselves as they/them/we/us,” reads the ...

Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right now, the provocation is the gender-neutral pronouns ...

FARGO - Grammar can make many of us feel tense. (Pun intended.) But in the last couple of years, the anxiety over grammar is fueled not by where to put an Oxford comma or two but at the very heart of ...

While grammar has never been a high priority for the Kanye-cosigned right wing pundit Candace Owen before, she’s made it one today. After pop star Demi Lovato came out as nonbinary and announced their ...

Have you made the mistake of mismatching pronouns? Almost everyone has. That includes the venerable and usually perfectly grammatical New York Times, most of your favorite writers–and me. I have a ...

IT'S very well-established in English grammar that (1) the verb must always agree with the number — singular or plural — of the noun or pronoun that does or states the action, and that (2) the pronoun ...

A Michigan elementary school district is doubling down on a lesson for students about using novel gender pronouns, including the phrase "tree," with the superintendent saying it promoted "inclusivity.