I was recently discussing pronouns with a close friend. (Don't you just wish you were my friend? Constant conversational parties around here. PRONOUNS. WOOT.) It started with a discussion of gender-neutral third person singular pronouns - ...
Rudie Nudie – Emma Quay (book review)
A little over two years ago, I shared our family's favourite books. The top twelve. The shining lights in our library. The list hasn't changed much since then. It's just grown. We'd now have to add The Worst Princess, The Magic Faraway Tree ...
Emojis as words – Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year
Last week, Oxford Dictionaries announced the 'Face with Tears of Joy' emoji as its 2015 Word of the Year (for the US and the UK). OUTRAGEOUS, huh? Except not really. For what it's worth, I don't emoji. I'm not cool enough. (Remember when ...
Practical grammactical: gender-neutral third person singular pronouns (the great ‘they’ debate)
Okay. Crack knuckles. Stretch back. I'm diving in with a big, huge, MAMMOTH-SIZED grammatical topic at the request of Maxabella. We all know the third person singular pronouns. He, she and it. (Side note: we'll use the subject form of pronouns for ...