[lg policy] Fwd: [Linganth] Washington Post article that "Singular "they, " the gender-neutral pronoun, has been named the Word of the Year"

[Harold Schiffman]

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From: Stephanie Feyne <stefeyne at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:26 PM
Subject: [Linganth] Washington Post article that "Singular "they, " the
gender-neutral pronoun, has been named the Word of the Year"
To: "LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" <LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org
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a propos of a previous posting - with gender identity being considered a
factor.


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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/08/
donald-trump-may-win-this-years-word-of-the-year/


Stephanie Feyne
NYC




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 Harold F. Schiffman

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 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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