Welcome to the Banned Speech State Feb 17, 2026 10:45 am8923 views Faith-based grammar Dec 26, 2025 11:30 am1283 views Legislating pronouns Aug 5, 2025 2:15 pm1120 views The second-oldest neopronoun, coined in 1849: ne, nis, and nim Jul 29, 2025 12:00 pm386 views Taking the Pledge--in any language Mar 27, 2025 2:15 pm600 views The search for plural ‘you’ Dec 5, 2024 3:45 pm1123 views Happy National Grammar Day, to those who celebrate* Mar 3, 2024 12:45 pm1291 views Baron’s Laws of English Usage Feb 16, 2024 4:00 pm333 views The War on Pronouns Apr 4, 2023 10:45 am2937 views Does the First Amendment mean "You can't make me say your pronouns"? Jun 13, 2022 10:00 am11807 views Microsoft Word's Wokeness checker is asleep on the job Jan 15, 2022 8:00 am2859 views Don’t blame the new French pronoun on Americans Dec 12, 2021 11:15 am4998 views Will the Supreme Court soon be policing your speech? Nov 20, 2020 11:00 am6604 views Pronoun backlash Oct 4, 2020 12:00 pm23013 views There are no pronouns in the Nineteenth Amendment Aug 12, 2020 12:00 pm3676 views Pronouns on TV: pop culture meets inclusive language Aug 1, 2020 11:45 am2279 views Heer, hiser, himer: Pronouns in the news, 1912 edition Jul 25, 2020 1:30 pm2122 views The oldest genderless pronouns are lo and zo, for French, and e, es, em, for English Jul 16, 2020 1:00 pm4042 views A grammar lesson for Justice Alito Jun 16, 2020 12:00 pm6780 views Verbing pronouns Apr 20, 2020 10:00 am2322 views It’s National Grammar Day. I can’t even, and you shouldn’t either. Mar 3, 2020 5:30 pm2534 views From they to tey to te: pronoun mansplaining in the 1970s Feb 28, 2020 2:00 pm4296 views Gender conceal: Did you know that pronouns can also hide someone's gender? Nov 9, 2019 4:15 pm5480 views Teachers' pronouns Oct 22, 2019 12:15 pm18847 views Pronouns and the law Oct 10, 2019 1:45 pm13198 views The Song of Singular they Sep 14, 2019 1:15 pm1727 views Can a Swedish pronoun cure sexism? Aug 29, 2019 10:45 am2398 views Commas don't kill people Jul 23, 2019 3:45 pm18040 views What do you call a retired professor? Feb 26, 2019 6:00 pm5246 views Countering the backlash against nonbinary pronouns Oct 16, 2018 11:15 pm16018 views Nonbinary pronouns are older than you think Oct 13, 2018 5:15 pm70766 views International Pronouns Day Oct 9, 2018 10:30 am1028 views Hey, you guys, you is already plural Aug 24, 2018 10:15 am17716 views In which Pooh tries a nonbinary pronoun Aug 11, 2018 5:30 pm4152 views A Brief History of Singular 'they' Jul 30, 2018 12:15 pm46442 views Thon was Word of the Year in 1884 Jan 5, 2018 12:30 pm11447 views Tennessee’s new “plain meaning” law masks an anti-gay, anti-feminist agenda Apr 30, 2017 9:15 pm2870 views Should ze be in the dictionary? Oct 19, 2016 6:15 pm1466 views On the birthday of the (legal) generic masculine, let's declare it legally dead Feb 24, 2016 1:00 pm5190 views It’s the birthday of a pronoun: heer, himer, hiser, born OTD in 1912 Jan 5, 2016 3:30 pm3626 views The politics of "he." Literally. Dec 25, 2015 1:15 pm8022 views Singular they is word of the year Nov 19, 2015 1:30 pm17166 views Some notes on singular they Sep 14, 2015 6:00 pm7482 views What's your pronoun? Sep 4, 2015 12:15 pm5411 views "She" -- Chelsea Manning and the first-ever court-ordered pronoun Mar 6, 2015 4:15 pm632 views Don't make English official, ban it instead Feb 21, 2015 2:15 pm30528 views America’s War on Language Sep 3, 2014 6:30 pm47128 views Facebook multiplies genders but offers users the same three tired pronouns Feb 28, 2014 4:15 pm37916 views Nobody likes a whistleblower, wrayer, snitch, narker, denunciator, quadruplator, or emphanist Feb 23, 2014 5:45 pm4276 views Apple patents page-turning. What's next, the letter i? Nov 22, 2012 12:07 am2237 views
