Pronouns in the news, 1930 edition: The Concord (North Carolina) Daily Tribune calls for the creation of a common gender pronoun (Mar. 14, p. 8), although by this time perhaps 150 such pronouns had been proposed.

found two yesterday in my spam that use the spelling "litterary" and i've also gotten a couple sent to my email but addressing a different writer and describing a book written i assume by that writer. which suggests that ai makes just as many mistakes as i do.

Pronouns in the news, 1878 edition: The Detroit News (Nov. 12, 1878) cites Peoria Transcript support for E, es, and em. "The illiterate will say 'they.' But nothing can be more absurd unless it be the word 'he.'" E, es, and em, the oldest nonbinary pronouns I've found so far, were coined in 1841.

The university is always looking out for us.

Pronouns in the news, 1917 edition: The Worcester (MA) Telegram reports that local resident John W. Taylor invented "hier. . . made up of the dominant letters in he or she, his or her, and him or her." 7 years earlier, E. P. Jots, of New Decatur, AL, also invented hier.

Pronouns in the news, 1937 edition: The Kentucky New Era claims that teachers eradicated ain't, a word the paper associates with American independence. The writer wants a common gender (=gender neutral) pronoun that would be useful for referring to women's hats in a theatre. Ain't pronouns grand?

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US Secretary of Education McMahon wants more civics in classrooms, with students pledging allegiance to a flag with 15 stripes and roughly 60 stars.

1939 best pic nominee suggests it's not a cult film. lost to GWTW. other nominees include Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach, Goodbye Mr Chips and Dark Victory and more. It was some year for flics.

Found this tucked away on a high shelf in the linen closet. Could use a touch up with the iron.

Another 🐝 reject and it's not even British.

New technology always gives us new ways to fake it.

The foldable iPhone 6s

so sorry

Sometimes patriotic re-naming can go too far... an ad for Liberty Cabbage, "formerly Sauer Kraut." The Plain Speaker (Hazleton, Pennsylvania), September 7, 1918, p. 5.

I'll settle for viva and vita.

Presented for your amusement, a new version of the author spam/scam, or should I say auteur, sent to me though I didn't write the book, addressing me by not-my-name, en français, and ending, eventually, in an offer to publicize it for me, for $, or perhaps €.

Moon shot