speech Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/speech/ Thu, 06 Oct 2016 01:24:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-WBP-FAVICON_7-32x32.jpg speech Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/speech/ 32 32 The Evolution of the Singular Pronoun “They” https://old.wordsbyapro.com/the-evolution-of-the-singular-pronoun-they/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-evolution-of-the-singular-pronoun-they Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:30:02 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1624 In a case of grammatical form following function, the American Dialect Society voted “they”, used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun, as 2015’s word of the year. The selection may have some traditionalists clutching their pearls, but the recognition validates the singular pronoun’s utility and reflects our shifting social landscape. Truth in Language Language is a […]

The post The Evolution of the Singular Pronoun “They” appeared first on Words by a Pro.

]]>