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Boston
fromBoston.com
6 days ago

Is it 'the Back Bay' or just 'Back Bay'? The answer might surprise you.

Use of “the” before Boston neighborhood names varies by neighborhood and by residents, with some insisting on tradition while others drop it in everyday speech.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Degendering of English

The most obvious example is the adoption of the singular 'they' to replace clunky constructions like 'he or she' and 'he/she.' Language purists argue that this is ungrammatical, even though 'they' has been employed in just this way by authors as diverse as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Dickinson, and Shaw.
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