Tag: Dictionary

Beltway Confidential

‘Racism’ needs no politically correct redefinition

Quin Hillyer · June 11, 2020 9:11 pm

The word "they" is displayed on a computer screen on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, in New York. The language mavens at Merriam-Webster have declared the personal pronoun their word of the year based on a 313 percent increase in look-ups on the company's search site, Merriam-Webster.com, this year when compared with 2018. Merriam-Webster recently added a new definition to its online dictionary to reflect use of âtheyâ as relating to a person whose gender identity is nonbinary.

Beltway Confidential

In the gender debate, the dictionary chooses a side

Madeline Fry Schultz · December 11, 2019 5:27 pm

The Dictionary and Us

David Skinner · December 2, 2018 12:26 pm

Are You Sufficiently Woke?

Dominic Green · December 22, 2017 9:00 am

The Story of English in the History of the Oxford English Dictionary

David Skinner · November 28, 2016 12:33 pm

Stuff of Language

David Skinner · November 24, 2016 6:00 am

‘Restore the Fourth’ rallies to be held nationwide on Indepenence Day

Red Alert Politics

‘Restore the Fourth’ rallies to be held nationwide on Indepenence Day

Katie LaPotin · June 12, 2013 6:46 pm