Neutral Pronoun ‘They’ Voted Word of the Decade by US Linguists

Neutral Pronoun ‘They’ Voted Word of the Decade by US Linguists

• The US language experts have voted neutral pronoun ‘They’ as the Word of the Decade.
• The third-person plural pronoun “They” is increasingly being used in English as singular form to refer to people who identify their gender as neither entirely male nor entirely female.
• The selection of “they” is an indication that how a personal expression of gender identity has become an increasing part of our shared discourse.
• Other contenders in the decade category included #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo, climate, emoji, meme, opioid crisis and woke.
• US dictionary Merriam-Webster in December 2019 named “they” as word of the year.