<div dir="ltr"><h1 id="gmail-firstHeading" class="gmail-firstHeading" lang="en" 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"><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/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/08/donald-trump-may-win-this-years-word-of-the-year/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Stephanie Feyne</div><div>NYC</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>