PHILADELPHIA (CBS/CNN) -- Merriam-Webster has announced its word of the year. It's the pronoun "they." The word can be used to refer to one person whose gender identity is nonbinary. The American ...

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 ...

On Sept. 17, 2019, Merriam Webster expanded the word “They” to include a “Single person whose gender identity is non-binary.” The dictionary publisher says that “New words are a happy fact of life for ...

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Merriam-Webster's 2019 Word of the Year is "they" — the singular pronoun that has gained popularity as a way to refer to nonbinary people who identify as neither exclusively male nor female. The ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has named the personal pronoun “they” as the word of the year for 2019. The pronoun can be used to refer to a person of non-binary gender identity. Earlier this year, ...

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Merriam-Webster announced on Tuesday that it has chosen "they" as its 2019 word of the year. The dictionary shared that lookups for the personal pronoun increased by 313% compared to last year.