(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 ...
GULSTAN: HOW DID THAT GET THROUGH? WELL, MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY ANNOUNCING WORDS OF THE YEAR. ARE YOU READY? THE NUMBER ONE WORD, THE PERSONAL PRONOUN "THEY." THERE HAS BEEN A 313% INCREASE IN ...
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What do these words tell us? That it’s Generation Z’s world now – and if it’s not already, then it should be soon. Generation Z, which the Pew Research Center defines as those who are currently ages ...
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 ...
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 ...