As Pride Month arrives, the #DEICT group discussed pronouns and how they are — and aren't — incorporated in business locally.

"With pronouns, what people are saying is, 'This is the word that honors me if you're not going to use my name. This is how I'm navigating the world.'" ...

Pronouns, along with conjunctions and prepositions, are generally considered a “ closed class ”—a group of words whose number rarely grows and whose meanings rarely change.

Opinion ‘They’ has been a singular pronoun for centuries. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s wrong. October 21, 2021 More than 3 years ago ...

Eight out of those 47 students also used yo as a third person pronoun. There were 8 uses of yo in the subject position: Yo look like a sack a** gump. Yo is a clown. Yo sucks at magic tricks.

I’ve long thought that using “they” as a gender-neutral pronoun — as in “My cousin had long hair, and they got it cut today” — is just great. It’s been used that way for at least ...