The dictionary that traces its roots to 19th-century author and lexicographer Noah Webster now says “they” can refer to one person – instead of only multiple people, as previously defined.
Merriam-Webster said this week an additional definition had been added to the word “they” in reference to non-binary persons.
The additional definition reads: “Used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.”
It is accompanied by a sample sentence: “I knew certain things about … the person I was interviewing. … They had adopted their gender-neutral name a few years ago, when they began to consciously identify as nonbinary – that is, neither male nor female. They were in their late 20s, working as an event planner, applying to graduate school.”
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT group, celebrated the news.
“Visibility matters. Pronouns matter,” HRC said in a tweet.
Others, though, didn’t welcome the change.
National Review called it “non-binary nonsense.”
Author Make Pantano also criticized the change.
“Leftists destroy everything, even language,” he wrote on his blog, “In fact, leftists must destroy language and redefine words in order to make the things they believe sound less crazy than they are. This tactic has been extraordinarily effective in shaping our politics….
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