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!
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