394: What’s Your Pronoun? (with Dennis Baron)
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It's been a big year for singular they, but there's more than one pronoun in town.
What invented pronouns have there been? How far back does singular they go? And why did some people kick up a fuss about singular you?
We're talking to pronoun expert Dennis Baron on this episode of Talk the Talk.