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Word of the Decade

January 9 , 2020 1782 days 1143 0
  • The linguists at the American Dialect Society in New Orleans, Louisiana –have chosen “They” as the “Word of the Decade.
  • The singular pronoun “They” is used as third-person plural pronoun to refer to those who do not identify with either male or female gender (non-binary gender).
  • “They” was also adjudged as the word of the year in 2015.
  • The American Dialect Society has picked only two “Word of the decade winners till now - “web” for the 1990s decade and “Google” for 2000s.

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