Languages in which nouns are given male or female status are linked to gender inequality, according to a new study that compares languages and equality across the globe. Surprisingly, though, ...

France banned the use and teaching of gender-neutral grammar in schools as part of an effort to push back on social revisionism. The push for gender-neutral words is “harmful to the practice and ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 8: When Nouns Grew Genitals Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab ∙ Play in Stitcher Languages all across the world have what’s called ...

When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...

Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right now, the provocation is the gender-neutral pronouns ...