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Federal employees at multiple departments were instructed Friday to remove personal pronouns from their email signatures by 5 p.m. as agencies rushed to carry out President Donald Trump's executive order not to promote gender ideology.
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Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Given that many good writers – lawyers, academics and journalists among them – avoid personal pronouns as a matter of style, the justices’ new direction shows a surprising lack of formality.
—Jill Barton, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
Other linguistic features once assumed to be universal—such as tenses, personal pronouns, and even, potentially, a distinction between nouns and verbs—have turned up missing when greater numbers of languages have been scrutinized.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Personal lyrics were identified by the number of personal pronouns, which especially increased in rap and pop, while rock and R&B saw moderate increases and country stayed nearly the same.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2024
And the use of congressman and congresswoman is at odds with other contemporary adjustments to circumvent or replace sexist or binary language, including personal pronouns.
—Daniel Wirls, The Conversation, 16 May 2024
The 2023 law restricts educators’ use of personal pronouns and titles in schools.
—Dara Kam, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
Musk himself often jokes about the use of personal pronouns on his Twitter account—a dig against the trans community.
—Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 June 2023
In Arizona in particular, legislators have targeted everything from personal pronouns and who uses what restroom, to public drag shows and the banning of books.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023
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Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Given that many good writers – lawyers, academics and journalists among them – avoid personal pronouns as a matter of style, the justices’ new direction shows a surprising lack of formality.
—Jill Barton, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
Other linguistic features once assumed to be universal—such as tenses, personal pronouns, and even, potentially, a distinction between nouns and verbs—have turned up missing when greater numbers of languages have been scrutinized.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Personal lyrics were identified by the number of personal pronouns, which especially increased in rap and pop, while rock and R&B saw moderate increases and country stayed nearly the same.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2024
And the use of congressman and congresswoman is at odds with other contemporary adjustments to circumvent or replace sexist or binary language, including personal pronouns.
—Daniel Wirls, The Conversation, 16 May 2024
The 2023 law restricts educators’ use of personal pronouns and titles in schools.
—Dara Kam, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
Musk himself often jokes about the use of personal pronouns on his Twitter account—a dig against the trans community.
—Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 June 2023
In Arizona in particular, legislators have targeted everything from personal pronouns and who uses what restroom, to public drag shows and the banning of books.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023
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“Personal pronoun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/personal%20pronoun. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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