Word Routes
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Pronouns Prevail for Word of Year and Decade
January 10, 2020
By Nancy Friedman
Linguistically, it seems, the second decade of the 21st century was all about our selves. At its annual meeting the American Dialect Society selected (my) pronouns as its word of the year for 2019 and singular or nonbinary they as the word of the decade.
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