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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Pronoun trouble
    sub title: the story of us in seven little words
  name:
    name part: McWhorter, John H.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 223 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
  abstract: The nature of language is to shift and evolve, but every so often, a new usage creates a whole lot of consternation. These days, pronouns are throwing curve balls, and it matters, because pronoun habits die hard. If you need a refresher from eighth grade English, pronouns are short, used endlessly and serve to point and direct, to orient us as to what is meant about who. Him, not her. Me, not you. Pronouns get a heavy workout, and as such, they become part of our hardwiring. To mess with our pronouns is to mess with us. But many of today's hot button controversies are nonsense. The singular "they" has been with us since the 1400s and appears in Shakespeare. In fact, many of the supposedly iron-clad rules of grammar are up for debate (Billy and me went to the store is perfectly acceptable!), and with tasty trivia, unexpected twists, and the weird quirks of early and contemporary English, McWhorter guides readers on a journey of how our whole collection of these little words emerged and has changed over time.
  table of contents: The "your highness" of I-ness -- Poor little you -- We persisted -- S-he-It happens -- They was plural -- Afterword: what's yourn is mine.
  note: John McWhorter.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Pronoun
  classification: PE1261 .M39 2025
  classification: 425/.55
  identifier: 9780593713280
  identifier: 0593713281
  identifier: 9780593713297
  identifier: 2024030168
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250108
    record change date: 20250530145401.9
    record identifier: in00005645144