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  • Book cover image of What's Your Pronoun? Beyond he and she.

    The second-oldest neopronoun, coined in 1849: ne, nis, and nim

    Jul 29, 2025 12:00 pm710 views
  • Ban English

    Don’t Make English Official, Ban It Instead

    Mar 1, 2025 1:15 pm3203 views
  • Definition of iel in Le Petit Robert online

    Don’t blame the new French pronoun on Americans

    Dec 12, 2021 11:15 am5025 views
  • The First Amendment, from North Carolina's copy of the original Bill of Rights

    Will the Supreme Court soon be policing your speech?

    Nov 20, 2020 11:00 am6615 views
  • Chicago Tribune headline, Mrs. Young invents pronoun . . . makes principals gasp

    Heer, hiser, himer: Pronouns in the news, 1912 edition

    Jul 25, 2020 1:30 pm2187 views
  • La Marianne, symbol of the French Revolution

    The French Academy wants you to remember, this virus is feminine

    May 9, 2020 5:15 pm8737 views
  • Grammar-shaming Trump

    Nov 1, 2019 12:00 pm11042 views

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