The singular pronoun “they” is the word of the decade, according to The American Dialect Society. Formed more than 130 years ago, the American Dialect Society, along with organizations like ...

It’s spring cleaning time — an opportunity to sweep out dust bunnies lurking in recesses of recent reading. Let’s start with various forms of disagreement between singular and plural elements in a ...

A reader named Judy recently wrote to say it bothers her to hear "None were there" in place of "None was there." Then a reader named Richard noticed this news headline, "Disabled couple win right to ...

There are two stated reasons why the Associated Press has rewritten its — its, not their — much-vaunted stylebook to allow for “they” instead of “it”: The first is stupid — that pretty much everyone ...