It's called a reflexive pronoun — it corresponds to a pronoun previously in the sentence.
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SINGULAR THEY (2015): The ADS picked a pronoun for the 19893 WOTY, but not just any pronoun.
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I've heard you sometimes refer to yourself with a feminine pronoun, and other times with a masculine pronoun.
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In 1884, the invented pronoun "thon" was publicized by the coiner, C.C. Converse, as an expedient pronoun for all genders.
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English has a gap in its pronoun system (other languages have an impeccable singular gender-neutral pronoun, but we do not).
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It's been in the news as well; Merriam-Webster cites congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, whose child is gender non-conforming and uses the pronoun, and singer Sam Smith, who is nonbinary and also uses the pronoun, as prominent figures who brought the pronoun into headlines.
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"This isn't just about a pronoun, it's about what that pronoun means," Tyson Langhofer, director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, said in a statement.
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This "Word of agreement that sounds like a pronoun" is a French word that sounds like an English pronoun, which is not mentioned in the clue, but that's Friday for you.
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" Another notes, simply, "i love that preferred gender pronoun.
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Adopt a company-wide gender-neutral pronoun Require that everyone adopt a gender-neutral pronoun such as "they, them, and theirs" when it comes to interacting and corresponding with others in the organization.
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They just say the pronoun 'he' to us and stuff.
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I don't know what pronoun to use for the monster!
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EISENMAN I'm gender fluid, but I use the "she" pronoun.
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They're allowed to be called by their name and pronoun.
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Everyone who attended received laminated cards explaining correct pronoun usage.
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AREU: You could choose your own gender pronoun for yourself, yes.
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Correction: This article originally used the wrong pronoun for Leslie Gibson.
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Did you notice the pronoun I used in that last sentence?
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How come the second-person plural doesn't have its own pronoun?
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CNN is attempting to confirm the victim's preferred name and pronoun.
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Being called the wrong pronoun is bad enough when you're sober.
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Part of the solution could be to standardize pronoun identification, like by adding your pronouns to your company profile page or your email signature, or bringing up the importance of pronoun awareness at a team meeting.
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Merriam-Webster announced the pronoun "they" as its word of the year on Tuesday, marking the rise of the use of the venerable plural pronoun to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.
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At the door they're offered pronoun pins to wear throughout the evening.
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Eventually she finds her clipboard hidden under a box of pronoun pins.
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Given the wrong context, though, even a simple pronoun can turn insidious.
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They stress that it is best to ask what pronoun people prefer.
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Though hen was an invented pronoun, it's already slotting into everyday use.
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But then what happens later when it's time for a possessive pronoun?
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There are welters of pronoun confusion, and the pacing is all wrong.
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It is also a preferred pronoun for people who are gender nonbinary.
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Correction February 28th, 6:18PM ET: Corrects pronoun in the third paragraph.
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Invite them to tell you more and educate yourself on pronoun use.
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For three years, he used the wrong name and the wrong pronoun.
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That last use of the pronoun they was added to Merriam-Webster.
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Merriam-Webster officially added the nonbinary pronoun as an entry in September.
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There's space for every pronoun, every hyphen and every politically correct portmanteau.
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If everybody got behind one pronoun, that would give it a fighting chance.
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We know her only by her "I," a pronoun that she wields warily.
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"Bess rewrites all the time, and minutiae — a pronoun, an adjective," Alexander said.
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The question of which pronoun to use "has many different layers," she said.
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An earlier version of this story used an incorrect pronoun in one instance.
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This month, Merriam-Webster named the pronoun "they" its word of the year.
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Only a sudden pronoun shift or small detail indicates a shift in perspective.
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They're not going to have trouble if someone takes on a different pronoun.
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And yet, the personal pronoun "I" is used a lot, and she criticized that.
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Some also argue that a male pronoun shouldn't be the "default" for a human.
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A headline that you will go jail for using an incorrect pronoun is absurd.
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"Like" is a preposition that should be followed by a noun or pronoun. Rephrase.
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As my sign of respect, I'll thus use singular "they" here as Alexis's pronoun.
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Unlike a lot of email signatures these days, Gmail doesn't specify its preferred pronoun.
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OkCupid's pronoun update "raises the bar for LGBTQ-inclusion on dating apps," Stokes says.
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This article has been updated to reflect Asia Kate Dillon's preferred gender pronoun usage.
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Ask for pronouns, and stick to the singular they/them pronoun when you're unsure.
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I think it just sounds better to use a pronoun than a person's name.
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A moment on a sidewalk becomes a koan, a fragment bearing a mysterious pronoun.
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The singular pronoun "they" was even named the word of 2019 by Merriam Webster.
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" Yeah, we're not going to play the, "Be mean based on pronoun game here.
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Colleges ask students to provide their preferred pronouns; online dating sites offer pronoun options.
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But there is also an important difference between the Quakers and today's pronoun protesters.
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Do you have a story or experience related to pronoun use in the classroom?
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Its technology cannot reliably determine in some documents which pronoun goes with which name.
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"If you've known a student for the first three years as one name and one pronoun, and then in year four the student has a different name and a different pronoun, I think just naturally you might make a mistake," he said.
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A gender-neutral pronoun was accepted into the Swedish Academy Dictionary about three years ago.
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"Like," properly used, is a preposition, followed by a noun or pronoun as its object.
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Bumble, for instance, only lets women message first, whereas OkCupid and Grindr offer pronoun options.
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So the Smart Compose architects decided the best solution was to remove pronoun suggestions altogether.
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WATTERS: Well, how is the person addressing you supposed to know which pronoun to use?
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I've started asking everyone in my community to start using the pronoun "they" for me.
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Always ask what pronoun to use, and when in doubt just use the person's name.
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It's precisely the vagueness of "they" that makes it a not-so-ideal pronoun replacement.
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I'm even comfortable with the fact that I basically use it as a male pronoun.
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The barometer of personality change during a long-term relationship has historically been pronoun use.
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On Campus My fall classes started recently, and I had to face the pronoun question.
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"The South is ready to end conversion therapy," said Brinton, who uses the pronoun they.
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I am elated to address a professor and a dog with the same pronoun 'you.
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"I had a little bit of a crisis," said Emezi, who uses the pronoun they.
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It could never tell you if a pronoun took the dative or the accusative case.
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Merriam-Webster announced Tuesday that it has added the nonbinary pronoun "they" to its dictionary.
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Each toy even comes with its own pronoun, which can be found on CLF's website.
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Modern practitioners of pronoun politics can learn a thing or two from the early Quakers.
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They argue that applying a plural pronoun to a singular subject is simply bad English.
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What is the gender pronoun you want other people to use when referring to you?
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For example, should schools have a pronoun protocol like the ones described in the article?
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But no one is going to ask them what their PGP [personal gender pronoun] is here.
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" She told the crowd: "Ask the question: What is your pronoun?" before launching into "Million Reasons.
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What pronoun is properly used here, he or she (the essay authors each make individual choices)?
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Sometimes people can use the wrong pronoun for others without realizing it or meaning any harm.
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" Gaga also thanked her fans for inspiring her to ask the question, "What is your pronoun?
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Pronoun will be winding down its distribution, with an anticipated end date of January 15, 2018.
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"I didn't use the gender-neutral pronoun 'they,' nor denied my children's assigned gender," she said.
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Some object that this repurposing of the plural pronoun should be rejected because it's grammatically incorrect.
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When the AP Stylebook officially adopted "they" as a singular pronoun last month, our office rejoiced.
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Later changes will include an option for employees to display their pronoun on internal directory pages.
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As clued, it's a perfectly reasonable answer in that it is unquestionably a third-person pronoun.
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They were a they (claiming "they" as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun) and proud of it.
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Merriam-Webster announced an additional definition for "they": a third-person, singular pronoun for nonbinary people.
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Could something as simple as a pronoun reflect, or even affect, the way voters understand power?
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Is it fair that I have to change my whole pronoun game up for this motherfucker?
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But in recent years, it's also been used specifically as a pronoun for non-binary individuals.
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Merriam-Webster has announced that the nonbinary pronoun "they" is its 2019 Word of the Year.
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How important is it to you that people use the correct pronoun when referring to you?
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Do you think that Harvard should adopt gender pronoun stickers for name placards throughout the school?
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But the Obama-era guidelines also included pronoun and name preferences for these young people as well.
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A man opened the door and asked "Is this her?" referring to Alihan with a feminine pronoun.
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Rosenthal says the new pronoun menu "helps people move past and mitigate the situation" with their dates.
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Pronoun, a self-publishing service for authors, is shutting down after promising free ebook distribution for authors.
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The University of Vermont officially addresses transgender students using the name and gender pronoun of their choice.
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CNN generally uses the name and pronoun preferred by transgender individuals, regardless of their gender at birth.
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And when that noun becomes a pronoun, it is in what is usually called the objective case.
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Pronoun Privilege At some colleges students introduce themselves by name, followed by a string of preferred pronouns.
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"'Me' is an object pronoun to be used with prepositions like to, for and by," I explained.
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Other friends — including some who used a male pronoun to refer to Slater — said they'll miss her.
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This is the kind of student for whom we might think the pronoun exercise would be perfect.
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Listen to how Danielle refers to her -- "THAT" ... a pronoun often used for inanimate objects, not people.
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Cohen, Lion's mother, had many relatives, especially the older ones, who sent cards with the wrong pronoun.
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With friends and family I use any pronoun as long as they know I am non-binary.
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A surge in searches for the definition of an old-school pronoun signals a new, nonbinary meaning.
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Whereas Mr. Chappelle laments having to change his "pronoun game" in talking about transgender people, Louis C .
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The pronoun "they" is Merriam-Webster's 2019 Word of the Year.
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Both Facebook and Tinder updated their apps to include more gender identity and pronoun options for users.
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How important is it to you to have teachers and professors call you by your personal pronoun?
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From modes of dress to pronoun use to gender roles, the world is breaking out of rigid binaries.
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" Gaga went on to thank her fans for inspiring her to ask the question, "What is your pronoun?
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In fact, people have been using "they" as a singular pronoun as far back as the 14th century.
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Most are appreciative that Lopez made the effort to use a gender neutral pronoun for her family member.
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These days, on college campuses, stating a gender pronoun has become practically as routine as listing a major.
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Raising a gender-fluid child Franki Davis, 14, identifies as gender-fluid demiboy and uses the "they" pronoun.
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An earlier version of this article referred to Lindley Johnson, NASA's planetary defense officer, with an incorrect pronoun.
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One Friday evening, the co-worker once again referred to the transgender employee with the incorrect gender pronoun.
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It's simple for me: My appearance matches my preferred pronoun, so I don't worry about anyone misstating it.
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Its 2019 word of the year was "they": a singular gender-neutral pronoun for transgender and nonbinary people.
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This makes singular "they" a perfect pronoun — it's flexible, inclusive, unobtrusive and obviates the risk of inadvertent misgendering.
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An earlier version of this column mistakenly referred to the author of "The Parisian" with the pronoun "his."
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As Elizabeth Reis, a professor of gender studies at the City University of New York's Macaulay Honors College, explains in her Times Op-Ed, "Pronoun Privilege," those of who are cisgender do not have to worry about someone using the wrong pronoun to address us, especially in a public setting.
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Perhaps he once forgot his pocket square, or failed to use the pronoun "whom" when the sentence required it.
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A character using a they pronoun doesn't just have access to every gender portrait, but every character trait, too.
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On the issue of legal requirements for pronoun use, things remain the way Mr. Peterson wanted them — the same.
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A high school French teacher was fired Thursday after he repeatedly refused to use a transgender boy's male pronoun.
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As with other A.I. tools, the gender bias at the root of Google's pronoun problem is a human one.
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story used an incorrect pronoun to refer to Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny.
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If you pick a gender binary pronoun like "he" or "she," you're then locked into stereotypical clothes for gender.
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This pattern of pronoun use suggests people with depression are more focused on themselves, and less connected with others.
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So we know we should use uppercase at the beginning of sentences, proper nouns, or with the "I" pronoun.
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The pronoun was largely associated with neutrality, while the English singular "they/them," was associated with the masculine gender.
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Torin Hodgman identifies as "gender queer" and prefers the pronoun "they" or "them," MLIVE, a Michigan news website, reported.
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" However, "following the Nibelheim Incident, he begins to use watashi instead, a more formal pronoun with no attached gender.
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" A June 2016 analysis of Trump's tweets confirmed that his #1 most-used keyword was indeed the pronoun "I.
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It's not the word you use when addressing intimate relations like family members, who rate the informal pronoun tu.
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Most people know that you should capitalize the first word in a sentence, the pronoun "I" and proper nouns.
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Doctors and security officers use the masculine pronoun to refer to her, and pepper her with prying, suspicious questions.
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"Just don't kick me when I'm down," sings the woman who calls herself pronoun, singing both alone and multitracked.
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"There's no way that we expected this to happen," she said, then paused to reflect on her pronoun choice.
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Usually people who are against people that are transgender don't like to call them by the pronoun they prefer.
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"If someone uses the wrong pronoun it can feel like a weight is added to your back," said Lion.
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The nonbinary pronoun is now listed as one of four definitions of the word by the online dictionary company.
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Merriam-Webster declared the personal pronoun "they" as word of the year, with a 313% increase in Merriam-Webster.
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The University of Minnesota's faculty senate approved a pronoun policy in December, but only after three years of debate.
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Mokoena, whose preferred pronoun is 'they' says some doctors prescribed surgery even though they didn't have any health complications.
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If it is unclear what pronoun a person uses and it's not possible to ask them, use they/themself.
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These are what we need to focus on, not the difficulty some cisgender people experience in using a pronoun.
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The lawsuit also said that Nike did not implement any policies or training in the workplace regarding pronoun usage.
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But it's likely that the pronoun was in use long before then, writes Dennis Baron at the OED blog.
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One side argues that not to respect an individual's choice of pronoun can threaten a vulnerable person's basic equality.
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But in taking notes quickly, I probably — I mean, changing a name to a pronoun would be, again, sloppy.
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The gendered pronoun ban affects fewer than 1 percent of cases where Smart Compose would propose something, Lambert said.
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It is increasingly common for people who have a non-binary gender identity to use they/them as their pronoun.
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For example, all campaign offices must provide gender-neutral bathrooms and staff must address employees by their preferred gender pronoun.
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Many languages have separate masculine and feminine pronoun forms that tend to reflect the sex of the person referred to.
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In case your Portuguese is rusty, fans (and Google translate) have your back: The description uses a singular, male pronoun.
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And as your neighborhood police officer rushes to your aid, you're not fazed that she's living with a different pronoun.
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From second-person-plural pronoun in the objective case to a singular in the nominative is a pretty big shift.
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The presenters discussed pronoun use and called on the entering freshmen to "'battle heteronormativity and cisgender language,'" the student said.
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Two years ago Pronoun set out to create a one-of-a-kind publishing tool that truly put authors first.
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" Others also took offense to the way Trump referred to his wife in the interview by using the pronoun "it.
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The song devastates for its repeated, ambiguous pronoun use ("she goes down" as daughter, later "she breaks down" as mother).
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It is a pronoun denoting all that exists; more colloquially, it describes the current situation, the general thrust of things.
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Since han and hun are denotative of gender, it was suggested a new pronoun, hen, be used to cover both.
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Sweden added a gender-neutral pronoun, hen, to its dictionary in 2012, and it's since become part of everyday usage.
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Not only was hen chosen over hon and han, but Swedes even devised entire stories using the gender-neutral pronoun.
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Are the denizens of New York now legally required to employ a new pronoun for each of these many identities?
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It isn't until another coworker or guest refers to me with the "they" pronoun that things start to get complicated.
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"This word choice seems rather revolutionary in that it is a newly recognized "gender-neutral third-person singular personal pronoun.
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It only uses the pronoun "she" because it's written from an Artificial Intelligence perspective that can't quite understand the difference.
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They, the pronoun Sadie goes by, have focused on the bright primary colors and created a very amorphous, fluid work.
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Since my native language doesn't have an equivalent to singular-they, I use the pronoun "N" or "en" in German.
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Maybe he would have stayed a butch if they had just used the freakin' pronoun he asked them to use!
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Coke, on the other hand, earned some praise on Twitter for using a nonbinary pronoun in its diversity-fueled ad.
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The start to an answer about how to create an inclusive classroom might begin with just one word: a pronoun.
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"She said transgender," Jonathan said, inadvertently using the female pronoun, though at the time his father still used the male.
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This was who, a pronoun that acknowledges our humanity, our personhood, separating us from the flotsam and jetsam out there.
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When a significant other comes out as trans or nonbinary, their partner may refer to them using the incorrect pronoun.
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Instead they make a deliberate effort to call each child by their first name or the gender-neutral pronoun "hen".
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The first letter of the first clue in Puzzle No. 1 in the world's first crossword book — P ("Pronoun") 27.
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And earlier this month, the publication went a step further and chose the pronoun as its Word of the Year.
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Some people and organizations, including Vox, might use "they" instead of "he" or "she" as a gender-neutral singular pronoun.
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Jennifer Lopez used a gender neutral pronoun to refer to her sister's child on Instagram and her followers are freaking out.
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DAVID SATTERTHWAITEEditorEnvironment and UrbanisationLondon I was delighted to read Johnson's column on trying to find a gender-neutral pronoun (April 1st).
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Many ask to be referred to either by an invented pronoun, such as "ey" or "ze", or, more commonly, as "they".
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But Google decides, if a job title is good to go with the male or the female English third-person pronoun.
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I was delighted to read Johnson's column on trying to find a gender-neutral pronoun ("Everybody has their opinion", April 1st).
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"I feel like shit—it's cruel to keep me alive," Huston, who prefers to be identified with the pronoun "they"—thought.
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We were excited that such an influential style guide was finally recognizing a pronoun commonly used within gender non-conforming communities.
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The perfect gender-neutral pronoun has been in use in the South ever since the 1630s, and y'all should know that.
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Here's John E. McIntyre, a senior editor at The Baltimore Sun, making the case for the singular use of the pronoun.
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Goldman Sachs is embracing gender identity with a new initiative that gives employees a choice to identify themselves by their pronoun.
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That, coupled with Frank's pointed use of the pronoun "we" instead of "I," confirms that the Underwoods are a unit now.
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At the American Dialect Society last month, the committee decided that "they" should be the official pronoun for nonbinary gender identification.
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The more often games embrace pronoun variety, the less it seems like an outrageous political stance, emboldening gaming culture's worst actors.
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The flexible pronoun can be used when "he" or "she" doesn't suffice for people who identify outside the traditional gender binary.
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Last year, Merriam-Webster Dictionary named the nonbinary pronoun "they" as their word of the year, as Vox's Anna North noted.
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It's a three-letter pronoun that, despite the seemingly endless debate over whether a woman can become president, feels relatively benign.
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By choosing the pronoun 'they' as word of the year, Merriam Webster has put its considerable weight behind an emerging phenomenon.
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In October, the American Psychological Association endorsed "they" as a singular third-person pronoun in its style guide for scholarly writing.
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If you must ask which pronoun someone uses, GLAAD recommends beginning by clarifying your own pronouns and then asking for theirs.
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The definition of "they" as a nonbinary pronoun was added to the three other separate definitions of the word in September.
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"We've not squandered it," Genesis said in 2018, using the plural pronoun to convey that she spoke for this dual identity.
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" Those who find this argument compelling point out a notable change that Sephiroth underwent in the aftermath of the Jenova revelation: According to a Final Fantasy wiki, in the Japanese version of FFVII, when Sephiroth was living as a dutiful soldier for Shinra, he went by the pronoun ore, "a common masculine pronoun used by confident males [in Japan].
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When I went back through the transcript, I discovered not once in a half hour had he used the first person pronoun.
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George AI Martin apes these preferred phrases, such as "tell me true," or "mine" in place of "my" as a possessive pronoun.
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Miss Manners suggests that you simply switch to the female pronoun from now on and hope that the other students catch on.
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Brauer, who identifies as gender-queer and prefers the pronoun "they," said gender identification is about what feels right for the person.
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As Kaplan says, "It takes a minute," because you've known this person by a different name and pronoun for however many years.
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Merriam-Webster announced in September that its definition of "they" would include its usage as a singular pronoun for gender-nonbinary people.
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Merriam-Webster announced on Tuesday that its definition of "they" would include its usage as a singular pronoun for gender-nonbinary people.
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Immediately stop reading and watch this video of an Argentine girl explaining why "les" is an important gender neutral pronoun in Spanish.
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According to the BBC, the chosen word is the simple pronoun "they," but its meaning is no longer so simple to millennials.
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In many of his poems and prose poems, a pronoun – he, they, you, and we – is central to each line or sentence.
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"Everyone is bringing their own lunch," or "Everybody sees themselves differently," we say, swapping the matching singular pronoun for a plural one.
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When people say "him," chances are they mean, well, him, and to dispel any ambiguity they sometimes double up the masculine pronoun.
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The word "transgender" made its debut in an argument and the chief justice repeatedly used the pronoun "they" to describe an individual.
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" Smith announced they had changed their preferred pronoun in September, sharing an Instagram photo of the words: "MY PRONOUNS ARE THEY / THEM.
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If you want to know why more people are asking "what's your pronoun?" then you (singular or plural) should read this book.
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But job candidates should avoid one pronoun when interviewing, CEO of global payments platform Currencycloud Mike Laven tells CNBC Make It: they.
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Merriam Webster even made "they" the word of 2019 since its use as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun has grown so rapidly.
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Companies such as United Airlines now let customers pick the pronoun "X" or the gender-neutral honorific "Mx" when booking a ticket.
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In March, the AP Stylebook announced that it had updated its guidelines to allow "they" as a singular pronoun in certain cases.
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Read on for Leckie's take on writing, the feminine pronoun as a shiny object, and—perhaps most importantly—peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
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Intentionally calling someone by the wrong pronoun can make them feel disrespected or alienated, and can take a toll on their mental health.
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It was only when we removed the name and took away the first person pronoun and the introduction that things started to improve.
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Mistakes happen, especially as people are learning new ways to refer to people they've known by a different name or a different pronoun.
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The phrase "[ ] should not be wearing that" (insert correct pronoun) comes from advertisements and magazine spreads that group clothing types with body types.
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Before his release, Vlaming was allegedly told a number of times to use the student's preferred pronoun of he but decided not to.
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Yourself, you may prefer watching Mary Norris, the comma queen of The New Yorker, talk about the use of the reflexive pronoun. Enjoy.
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It's hard not to end up with awkward, stilted locutions that sacrifice clarity – and even information – for the sake of avoiding a pronoun.
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There is no doubt, at least for myself, that this reflexive pronoun business has now outstripped apostrophe abuse as the supreme grammatical annoyance.
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The English reflexive pronoun thing has not crossed the Atlantic, yet, but "no worries" has (having previously made the longer crossing from Australia).
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Her use of the personal possessive pronoun hints at the dynamic: the more she thinks she owns Louise, the more helpless she becomes.
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A "section" of Cesarean speech is I CAME, I saw, I conquered; at 18D, the Latin word for "that," a pronoun, is ILLE.
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They possibly don't understand it or don't know the right pronoun," she said, and added with a laugh: "We still cashed the check.
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Axe's pitch to them — Taylor's preferred pronoun, rather than "her" or "him" — shows a surprisingly progressive understanding of the value of workplace diversity.
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"We believe writers should try to use a person's self-identified pronoun whenever feasible," said Jasper Simons, chief publishing officer for the APA.
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However, I would even rather see "ze" come into play as a gender-neutral singular pronoun than watch "they" serve that purpose instead.
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This past September, Merriam-Webster's dictionary announced a new definition of "they" to mean a singular pronoun referring to a non-binary person.
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Two African-born photographers in the Guggenheim show, Mr. Fani-Kayode and Muholi (who uses the singular pronoun they), demonstrate more informed approaches.
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Two African-born photographers in the Guggenheim show, Mr. Fani-Kayode and Muholi (who uses the singular pronoun they), demonstrate more informed approaches.
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But the McKinney's lawyer said McKinney goes by the first name Alec and uses the pronoun "he," Colorado Judicial Department spokesman Rob McCallum said.
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"As a gender neutral pronoun, 'they' has been useful for a long time," said Anne Curzan, an English professor at the University of Michigan.
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At the same time, though, Rosenthal says they couldn't fault the dates, because there was no official space for them to define their pronoun.
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But the pronoun "I" is never the same subject, from poem to poem, and never refers to Lonely Christopher, the writer and social worker.
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She had wanted to call her by the correct gender pronoun but simply made a careless error and slipped up a handful of times.
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The downside of trying to avoid using the first-person singular pronoun is that you can't go cold turkey without sounding like a maniac.
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They should also allow people upon signing up to chose their preferred pronoun as well as the name they would like to be called.
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While I prefer "they" as a pronoun, I still use "she" interchangeably depending on how safe or comfortable I feel in a particular space.
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It is, however, refreshing to hear Colette correct her asshole husband Willy (Dominic West) when he uses the wrong pronoun to speak about Missy.
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"The city is actually the place of rugged individualism," said my classmate Joan, who grew up in suburban Philadelphia and uses the pronoun they.
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He was the head of the household, and one day he was gone — not dead or estranged, but a pronoun they no longer used.
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They could not only popularize the usage of the gender neutral they/them singular pronoun but also reflect the speech patterns of this community.
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" Dillon plays the first gender nonbinary character on television, and in real life, as on the show, the actor also uses the pronoun "they.
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It is not up to you to judge the use of the singular "they" pronoun, which, as the dictionary makes clear, is grammatically correct.
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Misgendering, or referring to a person by the wrong pronoun, is a form of minority stress largely experienced by the transgender and nonbinary community.
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In writing, a pronoun that draws attention to itself stops the reader's eye and checks their pace at the wrong point in a sentence.
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And while the story is set after the 23rd century, characters still clumsily struggle with the concept of non-binary gender and pronoun usage.
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But this year's winner proves that "even a basic term — a personal pronoun — can rise to the top of our data," says Merriam-Webster.
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They/their [th ey] [th air] | pronoun (they/their) The singular they can be used to describe someone who identifies as neither male nor female.
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For 28-year-old Andie, who chooses not to identify as a specific gender (and uses the pronoun they), the choice stems from something stronger.
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The 27-year-old transgender performance artist, who prefers to be referred to by the pronoun "they," has had their identity challenged all their lives.
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When you encounter strangers, use the pronoun "we" instead of "I" when talking to people and try not to broadcast to others that you're alone.
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For example, transgender recruits will be able to choose the bathroom of their preferred gender, and superiors will address the recruit by their preferred pronoun.
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To capture 2015, members tapped a word almost a millennium old, a borrowing from Old Norse that improbably became part of the English pronoun system.
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But it was also the rise in the use of they as a pronoun for someone who does not want to use "he" or "she".
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Now, riders can select from the following: Drivers will be able to see your preferred pronoun, but they will not be able to share theirs.
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They also recommend that a child's chosen name and pronoun be recorded in medical records, and that clinics designate patient navigators to help transgender patients.
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Defending himself over the harsh T-shirt encounter, he said, "One doesn't tutoie a minister," referring to the familiar form of the second-person pronoun.
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Name Withheld, Santa Fe, N.M. RE: FIRST WORDS Amanda Hess questioned whether "they" is the best singular pronoun to describe people with nontraditional gender identities.
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Everyone has a story to tell and, through smartphones, everyone has a full production studio in his or her (or some other possessive pronoun) pocket.
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Mac, who uses the gender-neutral pronoun "judy," has presented excerpts from the project while it has been in development for the past two years.
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The gender-neutral pronoun has since become a regular part of Swedish life — and according to new psychological research, it's changing the way people think.
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The media guide for "transgender issues" by Glaad, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group, advises reporters to use whatever pronoun their subjects prefer.
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Main Commons and Help namespaces would automatically support edits to gender-neutral pronouns, replacing "his or her" with "their" when preferred gender pronoun isn't specified.
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Because their explorations have been private, there are no consequences of trying out something different—whether that be a name, pronoun, or pair of heels.
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I also said that as a class we will refer to one another by our first names (community building) or the pronoun "they" (grammar evolves!).
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The artist and performer Justin Vivian Bond, who prefers the pronoun ''they,'' has been fascinated with Edie Sedgwick for as long as they can remember.
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Every time we use a labeling pronoun, it's like tightening the rope until the person really can not any longer willingly move on their own.
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" It goes on to say, "As a last resort, the awkward his or her is tolerable; a plural pronoun with a singular antecedent is not.
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" Ash McQueer, 24, who identifies as queer transfeminine non-binary (and uses the pronoun "they"), said that the festival "means a family gathering for me.
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" Alex Holland, a 17-year-old senior at Montgomery Blair High School in neighboring Silver Spring, Md., identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronoun "they.
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There are a few basics, but perhaps the most fundamental: Use a person's preferred pronoun, whether it's he, she, both or none of the above.
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On Tuesday, Merriam-Webster selected the nonbinary pronoun "they," which was only added to their dictionary in September, citing a 313% boost in lookups. Dictionary.
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In the country's Creole language, there are no gender pronoun differences, and homosexual (and trans) people have lived very open public lives for a long time.
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"Ze" is a pronoun of choice for the student newspaper at Wesleyan, while "E" is one of the categories offered to new students registering at Harvard.
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With the update, riders can select from a list of pronouns that include: Drivers will be able to see the pronoun that the passenger has selected.
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For example, in a sentence like "Thomas was planning to attend the meeting but she missed the bus to school," the pronoun "she" is obviously wrong.
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Instead, to the delight of schoolchildren around the world, the planet was saddled with a homonym for a butthole, modified by a second personal possessive pronoun.
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For example, while you are able to choose a preferred pronoun at the start of the game, customizing your avatar is subsequently restricted to gendered clothing.
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Other new additions include Zosia Mamet, Charlie Barnett, May Hong, Murray Bartlett and Garcia, a gender-queer actor who supports using the pronoun they for everyone.
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That seems to be the case in Britain; with everybody, Fowler's Modern English Usage approves of the use of a singular verb and a plural pronoun.
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"We would not be the organization we are known as without their constant hard work and dedication," the group said, using the slain student's preferred pronoun.
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Al Sharpton's longtime lawyer, Michael A. Hardy, explained the constitutional duties of the position, referring five times to the pronoun "he" for the state's top lawyer.
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Pronoun accuracy was an ever-present backdrop to her reporting: "The kids talked passionately about what they called being misgendered and being misnamed," Ms. Hartocollis said.
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The Times guidelines don't offer a simple yes or no to the question of whether "they" or some other nonstandard pronoun is acceptable in its pages.
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Word of the year: Merriam-Webster said "they" was its word of the year, as use of the plural pronoun expands to refer to nonbinary individuals.
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The surge in the use of "canceled" over the year came alongside increasing discussions over "flight shaming" and the use of "they" as a singular pronoun.
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While adopting the pronoun as a nonbinary description is vastly preferable for some, Merriam-Webster says, there has also been some debate that it is ungrammatical.
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We're told the scene was well-received by the audience, but the glaring omission of a pronoun to describe McGregor's love interest did not go unnoticed.
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But the suspect's lawyer said in court that McKinney goes by the first name Alec and uses the pronoun "he," Colorado Judicial Department spokesman Rob McCallum said.
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The story takes place in an empire where everyone is referred to by the default pronoun "she," making it impossible to distinguish the genders of the characters.
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Shupe: Titles did not fit But Shupe said male or female titles didn't seem fitting, and preferred to use the first name, Jamie, instead of a pronoun.
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The World of Dance star took to Instagram on Monday to show support for her sister's child and their accomplishment, while respectively using a gender-neutral pronoun.
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Using "they" as a singular pronoun has become common for people who identify as gender nonbinary, or who don't strongly identify as strictly male or strictly female.
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Also, the Legislature wasn't happy with U.T. after the controversy last year over posts on the university's website encouraging gender-neutral pronoun use and inclusive holiday parties.
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But the suspect's lawyer said in court that McKinney goes by the first name Alec, and uses the pronoun "he," Colorado Judicial Department spokesman Rob McCallum said.
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" Kreimendahl viewed it, despite the occasional pronoun and bathroom confusion, as a more welcoming place, "very willing to learn and grow, as I am growing into myself.
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She also prefers to be addressed by a female pronoun, even as she balks at what she sees as the younger L.G.B.T. generation's hypersensitivity to gender labels.
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A gender-neutral pronoun, "hen," was introduced in 22 and was swiftly absorbed into mainstream Swedish culture, something that, linguists say, has never happened in another country.
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If children's book publishers and authors are ever going to embrace the gender-neutral pronoun "they," perhaps stories like these would be a good place to start.
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Opinion editors, who generally follow the style and usage guidelines of the newsroom, were under the impression that "they" could not be used as a singular pronoun.
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Amy Hillier, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice, said her university did not have a standard gender pronoun protocol.
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Jack TurbanBoston To the Editor: With all due respect to Teresa M. Bejan, it is not just "pedants" who complain about using "they" as a singular pronoun.
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Despite this background, the pronoun has received pushback, with grammar sticklers arguing that it's incorrect English and right-wing commentators dismissing its use as mere political correctness.
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The badges Goldman's security apparatus printed out for her visitors still referred to her as Michael, and at one point, Mr. Williams accidentally used the wrong pronoun.
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Per the AP: Arguments for using they/them as a singular sometimes arise with an indefinite pronoun (anyone, everyone, someone) or unspecified/unknown gender(a person, the victim, the winner)… In stories about people who identify as neither male nor female or ask not to be referred to as he/she/him/her: Use the person's name in place of a pronoun, or otherwise reword the sentence, whenever possible.
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If you realize in the moment that you've mistakenly referred to someone using the wrong pronoun, the best thing to do is quickly correct yourself and move on.
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Lee Luxion, who is 26 and also prefers the pronoun "they," might wake up as a man or as a woman, sometimes as both and sometimes as neither.
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They let me wear my pronoun pin every day so that I have the chance to not be misgendered by our customers, and for that I am grateful.
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Although in miniature, Matteo was attired not unlike most of those who attend Pitti Uomo — that is, those likely to go through life comfortably embracing the masculine pronoun.
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Bette made every effort to understand her child, and, if out of habit she sometimes referred to Abby by the masculine pronoun, she was contrite, and was forgiven.
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On a sentence level, Murnane adheres to a militant grammatical precision and engages in repetition that verges on the incantatory (and that privileges the noun over the pronoun).
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That's What Ze Said "I use whatever pronoun my students choose for themselves, simply out of respect for them," states the English professor who wrote this Opinion essay.
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I noticed when I went to Planned Parenthood last, the patient form you fill out gives you the option of choosing your gender pronoun and identifying your gender.
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UK boxer Amir Khan seems heartfelt in his apology over calling Caitlyn Jenner "Bruce" on social media the night of the ESPYs ... but he still has pronoun issues.
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In December 2015, the family says, the company had been contacted by someone identified as Komrade, whom we will assume is male, for the sake of a pronoun.
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Take that, everyone who insists that using inclusive language is "grammatically incorrect": Merriam-Webster has named the non-binary pronoun "they" as 2019's Word of the Year.
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" And my colleague Cade Metz reported that artificial intelligence services from Google and Amazon both failed to recognize the word "hers" as a pronoun, but correctly identified "his.
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They have been some of the best [in terms of] using the right pronoun with no problems and raising their kids to understand, and love, me and all people.
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" The former women's rights lawyer asks precise questions during arguments, and when she poses a query about some hypothetical petitioner, she eschews the standard "he" pronoun and uses "she.
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" Egbert suggests asking yourself: "Is the person who refuses to make the change to a new name/pronoun still willing to engage in conversations with you about this topic?
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Tinder still doesn't let users define their pronoun, but it's nice to see the app taking orientation into account and giving people the option to match based on it.
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"It is a privilege to not have to worry about which pronoun someone is going to use for you based on how they perceive your gender," its website says.
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"I was in a writing session the other day, and a writer was like, 'Oh, you shouldn't use that pronoun because other people can't sing to it,'" she says.
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The company hopes the pronoun option will not only cut down on awkward experiences like Rosenthal's, but also help gender non-confirming people be able to affirm their identities.
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The transgender employee clenched the knife, lifted it up to the co-worker and threatened her, saying she was going to kill her for calling her the wrong pronoun.
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They (Vaid-Menon prefers "they" to a gendered pronoun) have been organizing in solidarity with racial-, economic-, and gender-justice movements across the world for the past seven years.
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Brooks went by the pronoun they, according to a bio on the website of the cycling group Friends on Bikes, where Brooks is listed as the Seattle chapter leader.
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While pronoun choices may not be an explicitly recognized human right, they represent respect for larger rights that are legitimately claimed, even at the risk of discomfiting the powerful.
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Asking invasive questions about an LGBTQ coworker's personal life or referring to them with the wrong pronoun can be dehumanizing and make them feel uncomfortable in their work environment.
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Lee, the apparent protagonist, is an icy, unforgiving professional who repeatedly pronoun-shames anyone who calls Morgan "she" instead of "it," and Mara's unwavering performance wears thin early on.
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I think it even just sounds better to just immediately use a pronoun instead of the person's name, because certainly, the person reading this story knows who it's about.
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The word "they" has existed in English for nearly a millennium, but it wasn't until 2015 that it started to get mainstream recognition as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun.
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It was after multiple years of trying out a different pronoun with friends that I was like, I think I could demand that the world respect me this way.
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The middle school student identifies as pangender, a term for feeling like you are every gender at once, and likes to go by "they" because it's an inclusive pronoun.
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In March, for instance, Caroline Farrow, a Catholic journalist, was interviewed by British police after someone complained that she had used the wrong pronoun to describe a transgender girl.
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Merriam-Webster announced on Tuesday that the singular pronoun "they" is the word of the year, marking a step forward in the broader recognition of non-binary gender identities.
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As Anonymous and Snodgrass write, they (to use a plural pronoun for what may well be one person) sympathized with Trump voters' desire to shake up the political system.
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But the suspect's lawyer said in court that the 16-year-old goes by the first name Alec and uses the pronoun "he," Colorado Judicial Department spokesman Rob McCallum said.
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The fining of Mr Whatcott, who went beyond using an unwanted pronoun but was not deemed a criminal, does not vindicate Mr Peterson, but it suggests he has a point.
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In one of her most relatable moments, she repeated, "No, you're not" a couple times after the "No, she's not," in order to throw us off the accidental pronoun scent.
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Merriam-Webster recently added a new definition in its entry for "they," noting that the pronoun is also used to refer to an individual whose gender identity is non-binary.
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At American University, there is "ey," one of a number of pronoun options published in a guide for students (along with information about how to ask which one to use).
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"That's the whole point of my trying to achieve success in mainstream pop — to have straight people sing to my music that has a 'she' pronoun in it," she says.
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Moreover, other than the occasional customary feminine pronoun, for ships, say, or nation-states, it has no gendered nouns, which makes it easier to play with innuendo and double entendres.
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In 29, the only reference to the Bo's non-binary identity is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it use of personal pronoun 'they,' during one of the game's fleeting conversations.
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"We start to close on the very first day by using the power that the president herself will have," Warren said, drawing cheers at the use of the female pronoun.
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Hospitals and professional schools have begun training employees and students on transgender medicine, and on basic etiquette like addressing trans men and women by the name and pronoun they prefer.
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She has rearranged Ms. Carson's original text so that the play now begins with Mr. Whishaw uttering the ancient Greek word τις, which he explains is a highly protean pronoun.
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And you'll be around to help the child grow up with the right attitudes toward gender, however he or she (or they, a gender-neutral pronoun) turns out to identify.
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If the choice is between using the wrong pronoun to describe my ex or to come out, I come out even if I was not initially prepared to do so.
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Similar to the Times policy, however, The A.P. stipulates that editors should first try to edit sentences to avoid using any pronoun, and only use "they" as a last resort.
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Merriam-Webster announced updates this week to its dictionary, adding 533 new words and meanings to its inventory, including the use of the word "they" as a singular, nonbinary pronoun.
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But in some ways, this presaged the current struggle of those who don't adhere to the gender binary to get the press to refer to them by a preferred pronoun.
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The lack of a widely accepted gender-neutral pronoun makes it difficult for even the most well-meaning person to correctly address someone without running the risk of misgendering them.
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This can be communicated through accessories like queer-affirming pronoun buttons — "I'm not really a big button person, but some librarians are obsessed with them," Deck said — rainbow pins, and bracelets.
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There are day cares that proudly tout their gender-neutral pronoun policies — so kids don't feel boxed in — and college professors who are skewered on the Internet for messing them up.
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Misgendering "isn't just a style error," Caitlin Dewey of The Washington Post wrote to describe a Twitter account she created following Ms. Jenner's coming out, to "politely" correct for pronoun misuse.
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And when we told everybody that we want to be called boys and that we preferred the pronoun 'he,' people told us that that wasn't possible and you couldn't do that.
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They are known for bon-vivant informality, with a Gallic knack for cooking and a greater propensity than other Germans to use the friendly du pronoun rather than the formal Sie.
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Dillon, who identifies as gender non-binary and who uses the gender-neutral pronoun "they," presented the award to Watson in a symbolic gesture whose meaning was lost on no one.
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" Worse, he acts offended when someone corrects his use of a pronoun, as if it's somehow a burden on him to have to refer to a transgender woman as a "she.
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The Senate leader often avoids mentioning Trump by name, instead referring to the "presumptive nominee" or using a third-person pronoun, and has offered some unusually blunt criticism of the candidate.
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Roger Cohen There is a reflexive pronoun epidemic in England that, while it may not be high on the list of the world's problems, is suggestive of some serious social weirdness.
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To wit, the first question on the New York chapter's membership application asks for one's preferred pronoun, which establishes a communal sense of respect while also acting as a safety net.
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The two professors mainly clashed with Peterson over the ethics of his refusal to address people by a preferred pronoun, as opposed to what he visually identifies as the person's sex.
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This is easy to do, because the list of sins to which one may take offense grows with each passing year, from the culturally appropriated sombrero to the traditionally gendered pronoun.
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Using the name and the pronoun the child prefers is important to help reduce depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation, studies have shown, as are puberty blockers for those who want them.
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And when people use "they" and "them" pronouns, they're tapping into a long history — "they" has been used as a singular pronoun in English since the late 1300s, if not before.
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But she (Big Freedia's website clarifies that "Freedia is a he but uses the feminine pronoun for her stage persona") has certainly made a name for herself in mainstream media as well.
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Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, may have given a hint to who President Trump's next Supreme Court nominee may be, after repeatedly using a female pronoun in an op-ed on the pick.
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GEORGE JOCHNOWITZProfessor emeritus of linguisticsCollege of Staten Island, CUNYNew York * As the American Copy Editors Society stoke this debate, I would propose "o" for the epicene pronoun to replace he and she.
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Of course, the final joke is that in using a phrase commonly used even by those people who make these arguments and mean them, she's already using "they" as a singular pronoun.
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I want to play my best and feel my best and being called by the right name and gender pronoun is one stepping-stone to being the best player I can be.
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Though "he" could be referring to photographer Diego Uchitel or even her husband, many fans and followers speculated that the gender pronoun was a subtle clue about her baby on the way.
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Schultz was nonbinary, according to the Pride Alliance website, a term used for gender identities that are not exclusively male or female, and preferred the pronoun "they" instead of he or she.
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Meanwhile, the former Nobel Prize winner from Ireland had seen the glass of water being hoisted (by Samuel Beckett in a bar), and there was no pronoun for that, he kept saying.
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In one about life sentences for juveniles, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at first used a masculine pronoun to refer to Chief Justice Bernette J. Johnson of the Louisiana Supreme Court, a woman.
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Vlaming's conscience and religious practice prohibits him from intentionally lying, and he sincerely believes that referring to a female as a male by using an objectively male pronoun is telling a lie.
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In one condition, the label said the brewer's name was Sarah, and it briefly mentioned her brewing career; in another, the label was the same, save for a name and pronoun swap.
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"Myself," entered into Google's search bar, brought up images of the pronoun rendered in garish type, while the Baidu translation resulted in a lot of selfies, posted originally on social network profiles.
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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 Decade at its annual meeting on Friday.
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Merriam-Webster cites Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal's powerful announcement that her child is gender-nonconforming and goes by the pronoun "they" during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Equality Act in April.
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For her, part of that means not glossing over her unique perspective — for example, by deliberately using the pronoun "she" in love songs to reflect her lived reality as a queer artist.
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It encouraged drivers to introduce their pronouns, noted the use of someone's "preferred pronoun" and told drivers to be aware that using "it" or "he-she" are offensive to the LGBTQ community.
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Mr. Johar will not use the male pronoun, but he writes openly and often movingly about everything from the pain of unreciprocated love to the aridity of having to pay for sex.
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Merriam-Webster also notes it has evidence in its files of the nonbinary "they" dating back to 1950, and that it's likely there are earlier uses of the nonbinary pronoun out there.
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To me, switching to a very binary pronoun meant removing that history of my life — like all the battles I faced when I identified as a woman, they would no longer be there.
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That message is one Allison Hope drove home in her assessment of a recent suit by a Virginia teacher who claims he was fired for refusing to use a student's preferred gender pronoun.
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No one is going to jail for using the wrong pronoun, just as nobody goes to jail for violating other provisions, like failing to provide an interpreter or not observing a smoking ban.
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If you're wondering what the name is about: "Hen," the Swedish gender-neutral personal pronoun—equivalent to "they" in English—is an umbrella term for those who identify as transgender and non-binary.
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" Share your pronouns Masure recommends a very simple change, one that means a lot to members of the LGBTQ community: normalize pronoun usage for everyone, not just those who use "they" and "them.
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To find out how the word has affected Swedish culture, US scientists asked native Swedes to identify a stick figure with a gender pronoun, and most of them went gender-neutral with hen.
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Lester finds precedent for the use of the pronoun "they" in literature as far back as Shakespeare, for instance, and argues that transgender people have been largely excluded from historical narratives and movements.
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I also find it very othering to see gay men making jokes in the "pronoun" section, and I got tired of being fetishized or called a "tranny," so eventually I deleted the app.
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Here, the limits of language become a problem: In order to completely make sense of the divide that had opened up in my perspective, I would need a whole new first-person pronoun.
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Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's oldest biological child, named Shiloh and assigned female at birth, told the former couple that they (the child's preferred pronoun) would rather be called John in 2014.
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Any instance of a subject asking for an unconventional pronoun becomes a conversation between the reporter, the editor and the standards desk, said Philip B. Corbett, The Times's associate masthead editor for standards.
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A venture into Scots Gaelic, which has only thirteen consonants to spell thirty consonant sounds, gives way to chapters on diacritics; diminutives and augmentatives in Italian; and the gender-neutral Swedish pronoun hen .
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Williams's clarification speaks to a broader and often divisive transformation taking place: the increasingly common practice of choosing a pronoun that best reflects one's gender identity, and asking others to adhere to it.
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Denouncing college students -- be they the long-haired protestors of the 1960s, the environmentalist "tree huggers" of the 1990s or the "pronoun policers" today -- is bound to please in a number of circles.
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"The book is so graphic, so heartbreaking, that I devoured it in one sitting," Move — who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun "they" over "he" or "she" — said recently at home in Hell's Kitchen.
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With obvious thought being given to making those options available, it seems like it would have been a short walk to do something like the choice of pronoun that Battletech's character creator gives players.
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In New York City, new clarifications to the city's human rights guidelines make clear that the intentional misidentification of a person's preferred name, pronoun or title is violation of the city's anti-discrimination law.
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The characteristic divide in dialects of German is the "Uerdingen" isogloss separating low forms of the language (where the pronoun "I" is pronounced "ik") from central and high ones (where it is pronounced "ich").
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Booth was also reportedly accused of "horrific levels of sexual harassment and battery" and homophobic and transphobic remarks that included referring to a transgender employee as "it" rather than by the individual's preferred pronoun.
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Time to think post-85033 election Canadian gender-neutral pronoun bill is a warning for Americans And so he has spiraled into the cold, dark place from which even touch may not deliver him.
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The original author "Gigi" often addressed fairly basic writing concepts, like what pronoun to use when the gender of a subject is unknown, like with nouns such as police officer, judge, teacher, or worker.
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Goldman Sachs introduced a pronoun initiative today, giving employees a variety of ways to signal to colleagues and others the pronouns by which they would like to be referred, according to a staff memo.
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When Merriam Webster used the singular "they" in a tweet, author Andy Smarick started a bit of a Twitter war by replying, "I won't be baited into a pronoun agreement fight" over and over.
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Conservative pundits have long targeted the perceived "PC culture" that dominates most college campuses in the US, including everything from the concept of "safe spaces" and trigger warnings to preferred pronoun acknowledgment for students.
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More simply, though, I'll call my students they, or "xir," or "e" (the pronoun coined by the mathematician Michael Spivak) simply because calling people by the names they prefer is a matter of respect.
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The selection of "they" as a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun was a long time coming — singular "they" has been in use for centuries by everyone from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Jane Austen.
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" The American Heritage Dictionary also mentions gender in its definition of "they," noting that it can be "used as a singular personal pronoun for someone who does not identify as either male or female.
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Little-used words in the piece -- "lodestar" was one -- were being cited as forensic evidence, and a mistaken tweet describing the writer with a male pronoun was seized upon to eliminate half the population.
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" Before this, Merriam-Webster had included a singular "they" pronoun — but the definition stated that it was used for "an unknown or unspecified person" or "a single person whose gender is intentionally not revealed.
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In early September, Wynn tweeted about some of her frustrations with the phenomenon of a "pronoun circle," when people in ostensibly trans-inclusive spaces go around the room and introduce themselves with their pronouns.
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It should be noted that someone's name or pronouns do not necessarily tell you anything about their gender or other identities, according to My Pronouns, a resource for educating people about inclusive pronoun language.
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I was repeatedly called out of my name and by the wrong gender pronoun by school bullies — but most often by the adults charged with creating a safe, welcoming and affirming space for students.
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In September, Merriam-Webster added the singular pronoun "they," used to refer to "a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary," or to a person whose gender is unknown or is intentionally not revealed.
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Gender equality was measured by analysing male vs female wage ratios, male vs female pronoun use in published books, female representation in government, and US data on attitudes regarding preference for a male vs.
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That's what happened here earlier this month anyway, at a downtown Marriott, where members of the 127-year-old American Dialect Society anointed "they," the singular, gender-neutral pronoun, the 2015 Word of the Year.
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Its star character is named after a gender-neutral Swedish pronoun, and their bald head (save for a thin ponytail) is alternately attached to a feminine or masculine body from one number to the next.
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Her refusal may also be more explicitly autobiographical; she is a lesbian who said in a recent interview in The New York Times that she is "gender fluid," and that she uses the "she" pronoun.
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When the interviewer asked Peterson what gave him the right to offend transgendered people about their self-referential pronoun choices, Peterson asked what right she (and, we can infer, transgendered people) had to offend him.
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After the publication discovered only 21% of people quoted in their articles are women, they developed a bot that analyzes pronoun usage and first names to warn journalists when their gender representation misses the mark.
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Philomene, who identifies as non-binary and prefers the pronoun "they," originally wanted to trick viewers into thinking the images were of themself, when in fact the photos were of other people posing as them.
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If there's one criticism to be made, it's perhaps how a player can go through the entire game without really facing any discrimination for dating a certain person, or for going by a certain pronoun.
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At Camp Quest Chesapeake, a southern Virginia camp designed for all gender identities, there are gender-inclusive cabins; no programming is split by gender; and everyone wears a name tag labeled with their preferred pronoun.
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Vlaming's conscience and religious practice prohibits him from intentionally lying," his lawsuit said, "and he sincerely believes that referring to a female as a male by using an objectively male pronoun is telling a lie.
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It's the natural extension of the singular they — formally, it's the singular reflexive pronoun, which you would use at the end of this sentence: Last month, Sam Smith announced they use "they"/"them" pronouns for _____.
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Along with another nonbinary member of the congregation, they have helped shape the church's LGBTQ language and policy and best practices, from an all-gender bathroom space to pronoun buttons available at the church entrance.
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Although the pronoun "me" does not in any way belong to the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, the author of that diary, and he likewise has no right of property to the repetition of that pronoun four times, meaning that legally or morally there would not have been anything in the way of me making use of that exact same opening, this would not have been the case with regard to literature, because the entire value of that opening lies in its uniqueness and its expression of uniqueness.
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" At last year's National Council of Teachers of English conference in Atlanta, Ga., I attended a panel discussion called "Progressive Pronoun: The Question of Singular They" (Page 116 of this PDF) which presented the current debate about whether or not to adopt the pronoun in this form: The N.C.T.E. itself hasn't decided whether or not to formally adopt the singular "they," but you can read a discussion about the issue in this 2015 blog post from the organization, "The Singular 'They' — When Pronouns Get Personal.
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Ze/hir/hirs [zee]/[here]/[heres] | pronoun (hirs) Gender-inclusive pronouns that some transgender, gender fluid, and non-binary people choose to use instead of binary gendered pronouns, like she/her/hers and he/him/his.
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I'd probably also add that we'll have to do some creative digging to come up with a pronoun for those of us who "identify" as only one person, regardless of what gender[s] we may claim.
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Sometimes it was the tiniest things: the use of a male pronoun to describe a hypothetical involving an entrepreneur or business executive, when we know that women, too, can fill these roles (but too often don't).
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But Ms. Dombek, despite her efforts to keep the first-person pronoun at bay ("I don't want you to find me self-absorbed," she writes early on), is also offering an earnest recovery narrative of sorts.
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Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, criticized the comedian not only for his gun violence comments, but also for other comments on the recording that dismiss common pronoun etiquette in transgender and nonbinary communities.
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More from Tonic: The first time Rowan Miller—whose preferred pronoun is "they"—tried to speak to a couples therapist about their partner Alex's sexsomnia, they had the feeling that the therapist suspected something more sinister.
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Brearley, an exclusive private New York day school, said in its gender diversity statement it would accept any female-identifying applicant and work with and support transitioning pupils, including accommodating their choice of name and pronoun.
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Sometimes these are collective affairs, and that's a wonderful thing, because the story of us, both the pronoun and U.S. "us," is a tension between individual and collective freedom — what I want and what we need.
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Does your school district, like New York City's, explicitly state that "Every student is entitled to be addressed by the name and pronoun that corresponds to the student's gender identity that is consistently asserted at school"?
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Steph deNormand, a patient advocate for transgender health at Fenway Health, who uses the pronoun "they," told NBC that seeing "female-coded" imagery while purchasing menstrual products could create a sense of distress for some customers.
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"Vlaming's conscience and religious practice prevents him from intentionally lying, and he sincerely believes that referring to a female as a male by using an objectively male pronoun is telling a lie," the lawsuit reportedly reads.
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Dove, who is gender nonbinary and uses the pronoun they, said they called the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department and shared the information they had gathered concerning an alleged relationship between Argento and actor Jimmy Bennett.
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Recent surveys have shown that 50 percent of millennials believe gender to be a spectrum, and it seems that over 35 percent of the members of Generation Z know someone who uses a gender-neutral pronoun.
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" These elements mimic the quirks of natural languages: Finnish has one genderless pronoun for the singular third person (whereas in English, we have "he" and "she"); Russian uses the same word for both "please" and "you're welcome.
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Jamie Shupe, 52—who prefers the first name Jamie to any gender pronoun—challenged a Multnomah County circuit court after first transitioning from male to female at age 49, before ultimately deciding that neither gender really fit.
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As they practice kicks and stances, the students also get to know each other in one of the safest spaces possible—one in which they're even encouraged to clarify which pronoun they want to be addressed with.
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After putting every argument on blast, Montell points to the real problem with refusing to use "they" for someone who specifically identifies with that pronoun: it's disrespectful and means that you're refusing to recognize that person's identity.
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"In light of this ruling, we call on the State Department to promptly issue Dana this essential document that accurately reflects their gender," Lambda Legal Senior Attorney Paul Castillo said, using the gender-neutral pronoun Zzyym prefers.
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Its I.P.O. filing, which included at least 150 references to the word "community," noted that Mr. Neumann had acted to trademark "We" and extract a $5.9 million payment from the company for the use of the pronoun.
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In the past, Peterson told VICE that he had not actually encountered a situation in which a student or staff member had asked him to address by a different pronoun than the one he identified them by.
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Things like deadnaming, or purposely referring to a trans person by their former name, and misgendering — calling someone by a pronoun they don't use — are used to express disagreement with the legitimacy of trans lives and identities.
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A typical ballez class includes the usual exercises and combinations but begins with students sharing their names and a preferred gender pronoun; ballet barres are placed in a triangle so the students are closer to one another.
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Last November Duden decided against emulating the Swedish Academy's recognition in 2015 of a new pronoun ("hen", joining "hon", she, and "han", he) for people identifying as neither female nor male, or for use in a generic sense.
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In college, Caroline Criado Perez picked up a book on linguistic theory that pointed out that when women hear the word "he" — the default pronoun that is often used to mean "he or she" — they picture a man.
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When she wonders into his room of clocks and reveals the very personal reason she's in the FBI (note that she played the pronoun game with her partner while divulging her story), her crassness seems to charm him.
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Even Chiang's title has an obvious double meaning almost from the get-go, the pronoun "your" belonging both to Louise's daughter and the idea that we as humans are made of our memories and defined by our choices.
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It wasn't until 1745, when the schoolmistress-turned-grammar-expert Ann Fisher proposed "he" as a universal pronoun for a person of unknown gender, that the use of "they" in the same circumstance was respun as grammatically incorrect.
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The singular pronoun "they" was recently declared word of the year by the American Dialect Society, marriage equality was passed by the Supreme Court in June, and sexual minorities have more visibility now than ever across multiple platforms.
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Andrea Lawlor, a gender queer novelist and visiting lecturer at Mt. Holyoke College; Lawlor, who uses the pronoun they, shares the first floor rooms with their girlfriend, their 5-year-old child, and their child's sprawling Lego constructions.
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It takes less than no time, and only a few pronoun flips, to accept Kathryn Hunter, attired and coifed like Beatrice Lillie in "Thoroughly Modern Millie," as "Lady" Timon, the wittily offbeat host of an arty Athenian salon.
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Word of the Day noun: a pronoun that points out an intended referent adjective: serving to demonstrate adjective: given to or marked by the open expression of emotion _________ The word demonstrative has appeared in 27 articles on nytimes.
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The kinds of pronoun circles that make Natalie Wynn uncomfortable, as well as subtler actions like pronouns in Twitter bios or email signatures, are all earnest attempts at making trans people more visible and thus, hopefully, more accepted.
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Even at a well-intentioned company that espouses progressive values, there will inevitably be slips of the tongue and insensitive emails: the wrong pronoun, an outdated term, an assumption about how a person identifies him, her or themself.
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Lyft's soon-to-be-former chief marketing officer Joy Howard said in a phone call this week that the pronoun addition is part of Lyft's "Two is Too Few" campaign calling out the gender binary engrained into our society.
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And the singular "they" — increasingly popular as both as substitute for "he or she" and as a gender-neutral pronoun for those who identify as nonbinary — was recently declared the "Word of the Decade" by the American Dialect Society.
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"I think it became harder for us the older she got that people were still writing about her in the wrong pronouns, and also I was still talking about her in the press using the wrong pronoun," Theron said.
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Included in a list of over 500 words and new meanings just added to the Merriam Webster dictionary is a new definition for the word "they" — specifically, as a singular pronoun used by people whose gender is non-binary.
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The past decade saw some promising linguistic growth around more widely-accepted inclusive language, with the American Psychological Association's official addition of the singular they/them and Merriam Webster naming the pronoun their Word of the Year in 20113.
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Dwyane Wade said that he was once "a little" ignorant of LGBTQ communities but that raising his 12-year-old son, Zion, who he referred to with the pronoun "she," made him "look myself in the mirror" and change.
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What's perhaps most troubling about the plagiarized portions of your book are the minor word changes — a person's last name being changed to a pronoun, for instance — that seem to hint at something even more insidious than sloppy citation.
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"Her confidence in her sexuality is one of the biggest inspirations for me to be proud of who I am," she says, adding that Kiyoko's casual pronoun use and unambiguous music videos strikes her as honest—and that alone is empowering.
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Among other things, the policy calls for officers to honor a person's gender identity by recording and publicizing the person's chosen name and pronoun and abiding by their preference for the gender of the officer who searches them, the statement said.
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As in: "They and I went to the store," where they is used for a person who does not identify as male or female, or they is a filler pronoun in a situation where a person's gender identity is unknown.
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Many of the differences between the Greens and FDP were exaggerated for the election (the leading figures of the two parties, Cem Özdemir and Christian Lindner, address each other with "du", or the informal pronoun; they get on, in other words).
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A computer that remembers too little won't be able to do anything that requires connecting past experiences to new ones — like understanding a pronoun in a sentence, even if the person it refers to was named just one sentence before.
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If you are doing a larger study of gender issues, please see the links at the bottom of this post for related lesson plans, including one on the #MeToo movement, and one, contributed by a teacher, on pronoun use in schools.
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Though making it a requirement to call students by the pronoun they prefer isn't necessarily revolutionary, it's a small step that makes a big stand — and one that hopefully paves the way for schools around the country to support trans students.
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Barriers to appropriate care, according to the youths and the caregivers, included providers untrained in gender-affirming healthcare, inconsistently applied protocols, inconsistent use of a youth's chosen name or pronoun, uncoordinated care, limited and delayed access to treatments and insurance issues.
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If we go back to Season 1, Jussie's rendition of his father Lucious's song, in which he turns the pronoun and uses the song to come out in his father's face was a great moment, and one of my very favorites.
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Finally, I was able to get PERSONAL PRONOUN for the question "What is it?" at 59 Across, because by then I had enough of the puzzle filled in, and it was the only other definition of "it" I could imagine.
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At its core is the fiction of a self-reliant, totally independent and autonomous, Crusoesque individual, the one who is smart and strong enough to be able to save himself (the gendered pronoun is not accidental here) and, perhaps, his family.
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Bernie writes it for Elton, who sings it for Bernie, and thanks to the flexible magic of the second-person pronoun, it becomes a message that each one is sending to the other, and then to everyone else in the world.
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Lisa Reff, a Maryland lawyer who had urged her state representative to sponsor the "Gender X" legislation, said she had struggled with her teenager's request until another parent told her it was standard for the verb to match the pronoun.
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But if someone who isn't comfortable identifying as male or female asks to be referred to even by the common pronoun "they" (to say nothing of alternative pronouns like "xir"), most media outlets continue to struggle with respecting that individual's wishes.
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Mac, a consummate performer who prefers the lowercase "judy" as a gender pronoun (presumably as in Garland or Butler), delivers an original history of American music with ruthless energy through song, dance, puppets, poetry, brief history lectures, and audience participation.
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Research has found that the use of the pronoun "he" can create a male bias in readers, that countries with gendered language have higher gender inequality and that even subtly sexist language may influence voters' likelihood of supporting a particular candidate.
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By the middle of the 17th century, in response to increasing geographic and social mobility, the plural "you" had begun to crowd out the singular "thee" as the standard second-person pronoun, even for those of a lower social station.
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Dwyane Wade said this week on the podcast "All the Smoke" that he was once "a little" ignorant of LGBTQ communities but that raising his 12-year-old son, Zion, who he referred to with the pronoun "she," made him change.
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Sometimes the reader can highlight a societal change — a trans woman reads a letter in which the writer suggests a new gender-neutral pronoun, "ahon," and then speaks about her own experiences trying to get people to use her correct pronouns.
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In 2016, as parliament was debating Bill C-16, Jordan Peterson (pictured), then a little-known psychology professor at the University of Toronto, warned that it could make criminals of people who use a pronoun that a transgender person does not like.
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I asked if Hato Moa was a pen name (it is, comprised of the Japanese name for pigeon and the name of an extinct bird) and what their preferred pronoun was ("that bird" was the first answer, but also she/her is acceptable).
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Occasionally a script would come through where the pronoun would be wrong, and I felt very comfortable shooting an email to Brian and David and saying, 'Oh, I just caught this' and they didn't take it personally and it got changed right away.
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I know others who use "they," but with Melissa, rather than merely play the deferential ally, I'm determined to give my pal's pronoun my all, to use the "they" with gusto, and to put my linguistic skills where my convictions about identity are.
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In student groups, "We would do the pronoun go-around at every session," Dumlao said, explaining it was their "first concrete exposure" to a community that centered gender self-identification, and one where people were opting out of the binary gender model.
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Dr. Radix calls for safer health environments, patient registration under their correct names (not those listed on their birth certificates), and correct pronoun usage by health staff as a few ways to give trans people better access to the HIV-preventing drug.
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Our emergency contact information that we ask people for—we are really intentional about asking to make sure that whoever you've got listed, it's okay that we use the name that you go by with your pronoun so we don't unintentionally out somebody.
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Among the transgender performers whose birth names have been published by IMDb is Laverne Cox, who on her social media accounts last year described deadnaming and misgendering — addressing someone with a gendered pronoun they do not identify with — as "the ultimate insult."
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" Other longstanding definitions of "they" as a pronoun in the Merriam-Webster dictionary are those referring to people generally or as a group, or referring to an indefinite third-person, such as "No one has to go if they don't want to.
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Led by a transgender activist called Lill, who refused to give a second name and preferred to be referred to by the pronoun "they", these efficient activists helped install a solar shower and camp kitchen, while dispensing legal advice to the miners.
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Underscoring their connection to the president's team, Toensing used the pronoun "we" during an April Fox News appearance: "We were not going — the president should never, never ever speak to Robert Mueller or any of his lawyers in an interview," she said.
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Senate Bill 219 protects LGBT seniors from discrimination, such as denying admission to a long-term care facility, transferring a resident within a facility or to another facility based on anti-LGBT attitudes of other residents, or refusing to use a resident's preferred pronoun.
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Most members of "Generation Z", aged 13-20 in a poll taken in 2016, agree with statements like "gender doesn't define a person as much as it used to" (78%), and 56% know someone who uses a nontraditional pronoun, against 43% for those 28-34.
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In the third installment of CNBC Make It's new series HR Confidential, a New York-based human resources professional with nearly five years of experience tells Ruth Umoh about a violent confrontation when an employee referred to a transgender co-worker by the wrong pronoun.
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Amanda Montell, who hosts a series called The Dirty Word on the channel, opens the video pretending to be someone who doesn't like that people use "they" as a singular pronoun for gender non-conforming people or when they're unsure of someone's gender identity.
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When asked by the school division's attorney Stacy Haney, whether or not he would use the student's pronoun if he could return to teaching, Vlaming said he would still refuse— even though he has the utmost respect for the student, The Virginia Gazette reported.
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The format has also thrown off any the traditional stigma of self-released media, with the company quickly recruiting some of the top names in publishing for its Kindle Singles program, even as competition like the Macmillan-owned Pronoun was forced to shut it doors.
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Shortly before the book was released Emezi (whose preferred pronoun is they), published an essay in New York Magazine's The Cut in which they recounted their breast reduction surgery and hysterectomy, linking their gender dysphoria to their own sense of otherness as an ogbanje.
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A vision in a silver lamé dress and platinum hair, like a late-period Dusty Springfield, Mx. Bond (who prefers that honorific and the pronoun "they") made it clear early on that they were tackling specifically Karen Carpenter rather than the Carpenters as a whole.
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Much about "Mon Élue Noire," starting with its back story and every word in its title — the possessive pronoun, the specification of blackness, the choice and who is choosing — seems provocative and likely to expose differences between American and European sensibilities, sensitivities and taste.
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The same thing isn't true when you add a new, neutral pronoun to the language — something like "ze," which in Bradley's research was not recognized by many people, and when it was used, it was often taken to refer specifically to gender-nonconforming people.
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"In my experience, if you ask a person of their pronoun use in a very genuine and kind way, many people may find that validating or welcoming — because you are not making assumptions and are giving them the respect to self-identify," says Nadal.
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The American Dialect Society named it word of the year in 2015, but the word first surfaced as a neutral singular pronoun as far back as the 17th century, to the dismay of some grammarians at a time when "thee, thou, thy" began falling by the wayside.
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Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, or WWDC, is next month and if you ask the voice assistant (I refuse to call an AI a gendered pronoun) what to expect, it hints at a software update and new default voice — and what sounds like a new HomePod speaker.
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And it isn't so much the loss, I can usually come up with a suitable pronoun, but it is the discouraging feeling that the name lies just on the far side of a tiny membrane but could be deep in space in terms of its availability.
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It's all well and good to "pin [our] preferred pronouns to [our] pages" if we're using social media, but that does nothing for day-to-day encounters with people who carelessly forgot to put on their preferred-pronoun badge when they left the house this morning.
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" Johns's statement, in which he repeatedly uses the pronoun "one" to denote an unspecified individual, implies that he means both himself and others, that what he believes he shares with others is the innate capacity to be "disturbed" by a "broken representation of a human physique.
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The drink, named Hen (after Sweden's gender-neutral personal pronoun), starts with a base of sugar that's been infused with sencha tea and champagne, then gets whiskey, verjus (the juice of unripe grapes), two kinds of bitters, and a splash of kombucha, has a lot going on.
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Working in Paris in the racy 1920s and '30s alongside Surrealist artists and writers, long before the rise of the gender-neutral "they" as a pronoun and the advent of terms like transgender and queer theory, Cahun created stark, sometimes playful, but deliberately equivocal photos of herself.
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Here's a key passage from the A.P. entry: In stories about people who identify as neither male nor female or ask not to be referred to as he/she/him/her: Use the person's name in place of a pronoun, or otherwise reword the sentence, whenever possible.
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When I do, though, I remind myself that you can't really go wrong showing respect and compassion for marginalized people, and that it isn't really an assault on my freedom to have to refer to someone with a pronoun I just learned about six months ago.
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