Showing posts with label english. Show all posts
Showing posts with label english. Show all posts

27 July 2009

All-Purpose Pronoun

All-Purpose Pronoun

On the origin of using “he” as a neutral pronoun where we once used “they”.

05 January 2009

On Language - Bleeping Expletives - NYTimes.com

On Language - Bleeping Expletives - NYTimes.com

On the difference between “profanities, expletives, vulgarisms, obscenities, execrations, epithets, and imprecations”.

14 June 2007

Ms. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ms. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The plural of “Ms.”, when referring to more than one woman, is “Mses.”, as in “Mses. Doe, Roe, and Woe.”