“They” is Now Officially a Singular Pronoun — So Use It

Kristen Pizzo
3 min readSep 20, 2019

Merriam-Webster just announced that “they” has been added to the dictionary as a singular pronoun. To be clear, it was always a legitimate singular pronoun, but this official recognition is a win for gender non-conforming and non-binary folks because it is affirmation and support coming from people who literally wrote the book on the English language.

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Kristen Pizzo

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