The shortest words with the biggest impact
The debate about naming gender and sex has raged for centuries
10 March 2020 - 05:00
Are you, gentle reader, a he, a she, a they or even a ze?
It may seem a fashionable cultural question in this era of gender fluidity — and yet, as an impressive new book by retired English professor Dennis Baron shows, the debate over gender-neutral pronouns, in which language becomes the surrogate for addressing social concerns, has raged for centuries...
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