blog posts Happy National Grammar Day, to those who celebrate* Mar 3, 2024 12:45 pm330 views Baron’s Laws of English Usage Feb 16, 2024 4:00 pm198 views The War on Pronouns Apr 4, 2023 10:45 am2018 views Does the First Amendment mean "You can't make me say your pronouns"? Jun 13, 2022 10:00 am10188 views Microsoft Word's Wokeness checker is asleep on the job Jan 15, 2022 8:00 am2342 views Don’t blame the new French pronoun on Americans Dec 12, 2021 11:15 am4771 views Will the Supreme Court soon be policing your speech? Nov 20, 2020 11:00 am6485 views Pronoun backlash Oct 4, 2020 12:00 pm21827 views There are no pronouns in the Nineteenth Amendment Aug 12, 2020 12:00 pm3423 views Pronouns on TV: pop culture meets inclusive language Aug 1, 2020 11:45 am2119 views Heer, hiser, himer: Pronouns in the news, 1912 edition Jul 25, 2020 1:30 pm1819 views The oldest genderless pronouns are lo and zo, for French, and e, es, em, for English Jul 16, 2020 1:00 pm3558 views A grammar lesson for Justice Alito Jun 16, 2020 12:00 pm6610 views Verbing pronouns Apr 20, 2020 10:00 am2052 views It’s National Grammar Day. I can’t even, and you shouldn’t either. Mar 3, 2020 5:30 pm2431 views From they to tey to te: pronoun mansplaining in the 1970s Feb 28, 2020 2:00 pm3705 views Gender conceal: Did you know that pronouns can also hide someone's gender? Nov 9, 2019 4:15 pm5202 views Teachers' pronouns Oct 22, 2019 12:15 pm18272 views Pronouns and the law Oct 10, 2019 1:45 pm13036 views The Song of Singular they Sep 14, 2019 1:15 pm1647 views Can a Swedish pronoun cure sexism? Aug 29, 2019 10:45 am2158 views Commas don't kill people Jul 23, 2019 3:45 pm15798 views What do you call a retired professor? Feb 26, 2019 6:00 pm4664 views Countering the backlash against nonbinary pronouns Oct 16, 2018 11:15 pm15431 views Nonbinary pronouns are older than you think Oct 13, 2018 5:15 pm63495 views International Pronouns Day Oct 9, 2018 10:30 am973 views Hey, you guys, you is already plural Aug 24, 2018 10:15 am16209 views In which Pooh tries a nonbinary pronoun Aug 11, 2018 5:30 pm3909 views A Brief History of Singular 'they' Jul 30, 2018 12:15 pm39465 views Thon was Word of the Year in 1884 Jan 5, 2018 12:30 pm10537 views Tennessee’s new “plain meaning” law masks an anti-gay, anti-feminist agenda Apr 30, 2017 9:15 pm2807 views Should ze be in the dictionary? Oct 19, 2016 6:15 pm1382 views On the birthday of the (legal) generic masculine, let's declare it legally dead Feb 24, 2016 1:00 pm4684 views It’s the birthday of a pronoun: heer, himer, hiser, born OTD in 1912 Jan 5, 2016 3:30 pm3536 views The politics of "he." Literally. Dec 25, 2015 1:15 pm7572 views Singular they is word of the year Nov 19, 2015 1:30 pm16836 views Some notes on singular they Sep 14, 2015 6:00 pm7272 views What's your pronoun? Sep 4, 2015 12:15 pm5336 views "She" -- Chelsea Manning and the first-ever court-ordered pronoun Mar 6, 2015 4:15 pm593 views Don't make English official, ban it instead Feb 21, 2015 2:15 pm28880 views America’s War on Language Sep 3, 2014 6:30 pm44325 views Facebook multiplies genders but offers users the same three tired pronouns Feb 28, 2014 4:15 pm28739 views Nobody likes a whistleblower, wrayer, snitch, narker, denunciator, quadruplator, or emphanist Feb 23, 2014 5:45 pm3914 views Apple patents page-turning. What's next, the letter i? Nov 22, 2012 12:07 am2153 views Grammar sticklers may have OCD Jun 24, 2012 6:30 pm269661 views The Word of the Year for 2011 is "volatility" Nov 28, 2011 10:15 pm1453 views The laws of English punctuation Oct 23, 2011 3:45 pm7309 views New words are great for back to school Aug 26, 2011 9:30 am2062 views The Web of Language Fifth Anniversary Aug 15, 2011 12:00 pm4188 views Teaching commas won't help May 14, 2011 3:00 pm10886 views
