A common but increasingly mighty and very busy little word, "they," has an accolade all its own. The language mavens at Merriam-Webster have declared the personal pronoun their word of the year based ...

If your 2019 went anything like ours, it sounded a lot like this: “What is happening? What does it all mean? How long will the human species stay alive if the planet’s on fire?” They’re all powerful ...

GULSTAN: HOW DID THAT GET THROUGH? WELL, MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY ANNOUNCING WORDS OF THE YEAR. ARE YOU READY? THE NUMBER ONE WORD, THE PERSONAL PRONOUN "THEY." THERE HAS BEEN A 313% INCREASE IN ...

NEW YORK — The word ‘they,’ which was officially added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a nonbinary pronoun in September, has been named the word of the year for 2019. Peter Sokolowski, a ...