Indefinite Pronoun

Thursday, 04 November 2021

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What It Was Like to Face the Monster of Sarah Lawrence

New York Magazine 21 Oct 2021

Photo. Dana Scruggs. Larry Ray arrived in a federal courtroom Tuesday wearing the standard khaki shirt and pants issued to inmates awaiting trial ... But he never did ... He also played up his contradictions ... I answered ... He regularly cut me off as I was asking a question to offer clauses littered with indefinite pronouns that added up to nothing ... “On foot.”.

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The Surprisingly Long History of Gender-Neutral Pronouns

The Atlantic 04 Jun 2021

L ikely the oldest gender-neutral pronoun in the English language is the singular they , which was, for centuries, a common way to identify a person whose gender was indefinite ... The pronoun’s fortunes were reversed only in the 18th century, when the notion that the singular they was grammatically incorrect came into vogue among linguists.

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A broken republic

The Telegraph India 02 Jun 2021

This is a historic time, a time frothing over with never befores like never before. We are lodged in a thicket voluptuous with unprecedented things ... He uses, consistently, indefinite pronouns, he refrains from identifying who that nobody is, he makes an ingenuous abstraction of it ... We made an indefinite abeyance of the writ of habeas corpus ... .

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Letters to the Editor: Chapman University’s bogus ‘free speech’ defense of John Eastman

The Los Angeles Times 14 Jan 2021

To the editor. I am greatly dismayed that Chapman University in Orange County will not take any action against law professor John Eastman because its president believes his statements in Washington on Jan ... Eastman, professor and constitutional law scholar at Chapman University, is hereby charged with using an indefinite pronoun without an antecedent.

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Like word games? Try using the English language to crack codes

The Daily Californian 04 Sep 2020

Like word games? Try using the English language to crack codes Aishwarya Jayadeep/Senior Staff ... cryptograms! ... These ciphers are normally simple enough to solve by hand ... Letter frequencies ... For example, if the encrypted word is a single letter, it may translate to the words “I” (the pronoun) or “a” (the indefinite article).

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NOONAN | You'll get used to the new un-gendered pronoun; just give it / them time

Colorado Politics 19 Dec 2019

According to Merriam-Webster’s words of the year, “they” and “themself” is/are the preferred singular pronouns when referring to a collective man/woman noun or indefinite pronoun ... The singular pronoun in years past that referred to the indefinite “anyone” and the collective but ...

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OPINION | You'll get used to the new un-gendered pronoun; just give it/them time

Colorado Politics 19 Dec 2019

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Merriam-Webster Added The Singular They Pronoun To The Dictionary

MTV 19 Sep 2019

On Tuesday (September 17) Merriam-Webster announced it would be adding the definitions for 533 new words to its dictionary, and among the additions are dad joke, Bechdel test, and the singular they, a gender-neutral/gender-inclusive pronoun ... The use of the word “they” as a singular pronoun isn’t new.

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Gender-neutral language adopted in latest Merriam-Webster

Toronto Sun 18 Sep 2019

The nonbinary pronoun 'they' has been added to the dictionary ... “The use of they, their, them, and themselves as pronouns of indefinite gender and indefinite number is well established in speech and writing, even in literary and formal contexts,” it reads.

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Merriam-Webster adds nonbinary pronouns they, themself to dictionary

Chicago Sun-Times 18 Sep 2019

... identify themselves as nonbinary and have opted for the pronouns “they” and “them.” For those who may find that jarring, Merriam-Webster senior editor Emily Brewster pointed out the word “they’’ has been used commonly for centuries in the singular form as an indefinite pronoun.

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Merriam-Webster adds 'they' as nonbinary pronoun

The Hill 17 Sep 2019

Other longstanding definitions of "they" as a pronoun in the Merriam-Webster dictionary are those referring to people generally or as a group, or referring to an indefinite third-person, such as "No one has to go if they don't want to." ...

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I AM THEY: Gender-neutral language adopted in Merriam-Webster's latest update

Toronto Sun 17 Sep 2019

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Letters to the Editor: Robert Ford says accomplishments speak for themselves

The Post and Courier 05 Sep 2019

Editorials. Editorial. No, former SC Sen. Robert Ford doesn't need SC State building named for him. By the Editorial Staff ... P.O ... “They/them” was the plural form of a pronoun like “he” or “she.” And “they” was commonly used as an indefinite pronoun for “others.” Now “they” has become a (politically correct) genderless form of the singular “he/she.” ... .

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Delusions of gender?

News Times 25 Aug 2019

The term -man in chairman, congressman, selectman, and salesman, entered the English language from the German indefinite pronoun man, as in “man muss essen,” which means one must eat, or a person must eat.

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Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language

The Observer 15 Aug 2019

The 21st century seems to present us with an ever-lengthening list of perils. climate crisis, financial meltdown, cyber-attacks ... But the direction of travel is clear ... Given that numpire and those other words were nouns, they often found themselves next to an indefinite article – a or an – or the first-person possessive pronoun, mine ... Inside the OED ... .