It's also Qatar, not Gutter (that one I looked up and even the native speaker who does the online pronunciations said Qatar, accent on tar!).
Burma, Kiev, Mt. McKinley, the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux, Washington Redskins, American Indian,....some names don't need to change. And some are fun to use just to make liberals' heads explode: like man, he, him, left-wing fascist, normal family, personal responsibility, voter ID, President Trump ;)
Oh man I forgot about Qatar, that one is annoying too.
I wish we could still use Ceylon because it's such a pretty name compared to Sri Lanka. And I still like Bombay.
I was trying to explain the "they/them" pronouns to my 80-year-old parents and they just couldn't grasp the concept. My Dad kept saying "but 'they' isn't correct grammar!" lol. I agreed and said it offends me as an English major lol.
Just for fun do a quick search of the term 'singular they' - turns out it dates to the 13th century in English as a neuter-gender pronoun! No joke.
Even the singular reflexive 'themself' is a word.
Crazy but also crazy useful. It never made sense to me that someone would ask a classroom full of 30 females and one male student, "Does everyone have his new textbook and his seating assignment?" Not a fan of gender bending LOL
True, when editing I usually recast the sentence to avoid it, but IMO singular they rocks!
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It's also Qatar, not Gutter (that one I looked up and even the native speaker who does the online pronunciations said Qatar, accent on tar!).
Burma, Kiev, Mt. McKinley, the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux, Washington Redskins, American Indian,....some names don't need to change. And some are fun to use just to make liberals' heads explode: like man, he, him, left-wing fascist, normal family, personal responsibility, voter ID, President Trump ;)
Oh man I forgot about Qatar, that one is annoying too.
I wish we could still use Ceylon because it's such a pretty name compared to Sri Lanka. And I still like Bombay.
I was trying to explain the "they/them" pronouns to my 80-year-old parents and they just couldn't grasp the concept. My Dad kept saying "but 'they' isn't correct grammar!" lol. I agreed and said it offends me as an English major lol.
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Just for fun do a quick search of the term 'singular they' - turns out it dates to the 13th century in English as a neuter-gender pronoun! No joke.
Even the singular reflexive 'themself' is a word.
Crazy but also crazy useful. It never made sense to me that someone would ask a classroom full of 30 females and one male student, "Does everyone have his new textbook and his seating assignment?" Not a fan of gender bending LOL
True, when editing I usually recast the sentence to avoid it, but IMO singular they rocks!
/wordnerd