What’s Your Pronoun? | Dennis BaronLike trigger warnings and gender neutral bathrooms, pronouns spark debate, prompting new policies about what pronouns to use. More than a by product of the culture wars, gender neutral pronouns are, however, nothing new. Pioneering linguist Dennis Baron puts them in historical context, noting that Shakespeare used singular they, women invoked the generic use of he to assert the right to vote (while those opposed to women's rights asserted that he did

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