How does the English language express gender? Did you know that about 25% of languages use masculine-feminine nouns and grammatical gender? These include languages like Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, ...

You may have heard of the singular “they/them” pronouns, often used by non-binary people as a gender-neutral pronoun in place of “she/her” and “he/him”. But while more and more people are becoming ...

LAST week, I explained why the nominative and subjective cases are lumped as just a single case in modern English, thenpointed out that nouns don’t inflect or change form at all in these two cases and ...

In English there are four words for the third person singular personal pronoun. In te reo, there's no distinction. Photo: Martin De Ruyter / Stuff Prefer us on Google COLUMN: In contemporary English ...

Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness". But why did they ...