When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 8: When Nouns Grew Genitals Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab ∙ Play in Stitcher Languages all across the world have what’s called ...

WHAT ARE YOUR pronouns? In English, the most common answers are “he” or “she”. But a growing number of people identify as neither male nor female, and ask to be referred to with novel pronouns. “They” ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 9: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge. Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab ∙ Play in Stitcher Does talking about an object as masculine ...

Language in Society, Vol. 48, No. 1 (February 2019), pp. 65-93 (29 pages) We present a quantitative study of the linguistic and social factors conditioning the use of grammatical gender with reference ...

Researchers have revealed a link between role-nouns (e.g. job titles) in gendered languages and gender equality. The study, which examined whether the masculine form in the plural in German is ...

Elisabeth Braw joined Newsweek following a Visiting Fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. Previously she was Senior Reporter at the Metro International ...

Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right now, the provocation is the gender-neutral pronouns ...

A May 9 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) suggests an ancient text invokes modern-day language about gender identity. “In the Bible, demons refer to themselves as they/them/we/us,” reads the ...