Sex and The Singular Pronoun Capture the Headlines
January 16, 2016
In its annual vote on January 8, the American Dialect Society chose they used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun as its 2015 Word of the
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In its annual vote on January 8, the American Dialect Society chose they used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun as its 2015 Word of the
Welcome to a yearlong centennial celebration of the San Diego Zoo, most universally voted the best zoo in the US of A. Starting with animals
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Dear Mr. Lederer: I am an old nut (nearly 80!) about limericks. You probably remember this one: I went to the Duchess for tea. It
Eight days ago, Peter Gold, a 25-year-old medical student at Tulane University in New Orleans, stopped his car when he saw a man forcibly dragging
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