“They” Selected as Word of the Decade

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By Ken Ham

With the arrival of 2020 and as I shared on my blog a few weeks ago, the so-called gender-neutral pronoun they was selected by the dictionary Merriam-Webster as the word of the year for 2019. 2020 is considered a new decade as well,* and the American Dialect Society has chosen its Word of the Decade. Its editors selected they as well. What does this tell us?

Well, we don’t have to guess. The article reporting on this selection states,

The personal pronoun employed by “nonbinary” individuals, meaning they identify as neither male nor female, was called a “vital …read more

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