Eliminating masculine pronouns, Congressional old boys network goes gender-neutral

[Dennis Baron]

There's a new post on the Web of Language:

Eliminating masculine pronouns, Congressional old boys network goes
gender-neutral

The House of Representatives is going gender neutral. This week,
Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced HR 5, a resolution rewriting the
standing rules of the 111th Congress to eliminate generic masculine
pronouns and any other linguistic remnants of this former government
boys club.

Find out how the House plans to bail out the English language on the
Web of Language: http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage
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Department of English
University of Illinois
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