17-09-2019 21:18 via pittsburgh.cbslocal.com

Merriam-Webster Adds Nonbinary Pronoun “They” To Dictionary Among Other New Words

(CNN) — Merriam-Webster has officially added the nonbinary pronoun “they” as an entry in its dictionary.
Merriam-Webster announced Tuesday that the word “they” can be used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary along with three other separate definitions.
Merriam-Webster uses the word in a sentence as an example: “I knew certain things about … the person I was interviewing…. They had adopted their gender-neutral name a few
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