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(WXYZ) — As we approach the end of the year, Merriam-Webster has released its list of the 10 "words of the year" for 2019. The Word of the Year for 2019 is "They ...
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 ...
Oxford chose the word of the year from a short list of words that were all related to the environment. "It reflects it was a real preoccupation of the English-speaking world in 2019." Recent words of ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The end of every year brings retrospectives on language from many dictionary editors and word aficionados ...
Merriam Webster released its top-searched for words during the 2019 year and here’s what searchers most commonly looked up. In more recent times, they has also been used to refer to one person whose ...
Babbel, a language-learning app, released its list of the most mispronounced words in 2019. Celebrities' names made the list, such as soccer captain Megan Rapinoe, activist Greta Thunberg, and Mayor ...
Back in September, the Merriam-Webster dictionary added a new definition of the word "they," including its use "to refer to a single person whose gender identity is non-binary." And now, "they" has ...