<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephanie Feyne</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefeyne@gmail.com">stefeyne@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:26 PM<br>Subject: [Linganth] Washington Post article that "Singular "they, " the gender-neutral pronoun, has been named the Word of the Year"<br>To: "<a href="mailto:LINGANTH@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LINGANTH@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>" <<a href="mailto:LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org">LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><h1 id="m_6648824446395870844gmail-firstHeading" class="m_6648824446395870844gmail-firstHeading" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:visible;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;width:auto;line-height:1.3;font-family:"linux libertine",georgia,times,serif" lang="en"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:georgia;font-size:20px">a propos of a previous posting - with gender identity being considered a factor.</span><br></h1><div><div><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:georgia;font-size:20px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:georgia;font-size:20px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:georgia;font-size:20px">Singular "they," the gender-neutral pronoun, has been named the Word of the Year by a crowd of over 200 linguists at the American Dialect Society's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on Friday evening.</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:georgia;font-size:20px"></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/08/donald-trump-may-win-this-years-word-of-the-year/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.<wbr>com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/08/<wbr>donald-trump-may-win-this-<wbr>years-word-of-the-year/</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Stephanie Feyne</div><div>NYC</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div></div></div>
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<br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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