A May 9 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) suggests an ancient text invokes modern-day language about gender identity. “In the Bible, demons refer to themselves as they/them/we/us,” reads the ...

Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right now, the provocation is the gender-neutral pronouns ...

Reed Blaylock is a PhD candidate in linguistics at the University of Southern California, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. This story originally featured on The Conversation. On January ...

SAN DIEGO — It is not just a lesson in grammar but listing pronouns next to one’s name is becoming more common in virtual settings. "It's a small step, it's three or four letters of a word, but it ...

OK, fellow wordy types: See if you can spot the grammar mistake I fixed when editing the following sentence. “Our team wrote, published and promoted a series of 12 human interest stories that each ...

I and several readers were communicating recently about the practice of putting “I,” “me” or “my” first in a compound-noun phrase. In fact, two back-to-back emails posed the same question: Isn’t it ...

Guys, guess what! We have a new pronoun! And I’m talking not about the singular “they,” the subject of much grammar chatter these days, but the plural “you,” as in “y’all,” “youse,” and “yinz” (if you ...