Did you know that about 25% of languages use masculine-feminine nouns and grammatical gender? These include languages like Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The English ...

Apart from a people’s name, pronouns are one of the main ways that we identify them, so we need to get it right. Pronouns are part of the larger spectrum of gender expression. People don’t always ...

You may have noticed that people are sharing their pronouns in introductions, and adding them to social media profiles and email signatures. "We know definitely of 'he/him/his,' 'she/her/hers,' and ...

A pronoun takes the place of a noun close nounA noun is the name of a thing, such as an object, a place, or a person. in a sentence. Pronouns are short words like 'it', 'she', 'he', 'you', 'we', 'they ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Philosophers of language spend a lot of time debating the ins and outs of the semantics of names. I am a linguist ...

You may have noticed that people are sharing their pronouns in introductions, and adding them to social media profiles and email signatures. "We know definitely of 'he/him/his,' 'she/her/hers,' and ...