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==Bibliography== {{refbegin|30em}} * {{cite web |access-date=9 January 2016 |first=Mark |last=Abadi |website=[[Business Insider]] |date=8 January 2016 |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/the-word-they-named-2015-word-of-the-year-2016-1 |title='They' was just named 2015's Word of the Year |archive-date=9 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109014358/http://www.businessinsider.com/the-word-they-named-2015-word-of-the-year-2016-1 |url-status=live }} * {{cite book|ref={{SfnRef|American Heritage Dictionaries|1996}}|date=1996|title=The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BEHFyMCdwssC|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0-547-56321-3|access-date=6 January 2017|archive-date=13 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213110420/https://books.google.com/books?id=BEHFyMCdwssC|url-status=live}} * {{cite press release |access-date=9 January 2016 |ref={{SfnRef|American Dialect Society|2016}} |publisher=[[American Dialect Society]] |date=8 January 2016 |url=https://www.americandialect.org/2015-word-of-the-year-is-singular-they |title=2015 Word of the Year is singular ''they'' |archive-date=6 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306073612/http://www.americandialect.org/2015-word-of-the-year-is-singular-they |url-status=live }} * {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|APA|2001}} |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher=[[American Psychological Association]] |date=2001 |title=Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association |isbn=1-55798-790-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/publicationmanu000amer |url-access=registration |edition=5th }} * {{cite journal |last1=Arnold |first1=Jennifer E |last2=Venkatesh |first2=Ranjani |last3=Vig |first3=Zachary A |title=Gender competition in the production of nonbinary 'they' |journal=Glossa Psycholinguistics |date=2024 |volume=3 |issue=1 |doi=10.5070/G60111306 |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pp284w3 |doi-access=free |access-date=24 April 2024 |archive-date=24 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240424221801/https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pp284w3 |url-status=live }} * {{cite news |work=[[The New York Times]] |first=C. |last=Badendyck |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/07/magazine/l-hypersexism-and-the-feds-104770.html |title=[Letter commenting on] Hypersexism And the Feds |date=7 July 1985 |access-date=12 February 2017 |archive-date=28 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628052500/http://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/07/magazine/l-hypersexism-and-the-feds-104770.html |url-status=live }} As quoted by Miller and Swift. <!-- * {{cite book|last1= Bain |first1= Alexander |title= An English Grammar |url= https://archive.org/details/anenglishgramma00magoog |access-date=27 December 2013 |date=1895|publisher= Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green}} --> * {{cite book |last1= Baskervill |first1= W. 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Stationery Office |isbn=978-0-11-700340-8|bibcode= 1973cpw..book.....G }} * {{cite book |last1= Gowers |first1= Ernest |author-link1= Ernest Gowers |last2= Gowers |first2= Rebecca |title= Plain Words |date= 2014 |location= London |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=6B40AgAAQBAJ |publisher= Particular |isbn= 978-0-241-96035-6 |access-date= 6 January 2017 |archive-date= 13 December 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231213110925/https://books.google.com/books?id=6B40AgAAQBAJ |url-status= live }} * {{cite news |access-date=9 January 2016 |first=Jeff |last=Guo |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=8 January 2016 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/08/donald-trump-may-win-this-years-word-of-the-year/ |title=Sorry, grammar nerds. The singular 'they' has been declared Word of the Year. |archive-date=8 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108235925/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/08/donald-trump-may-win-this-years-word-of-the-year/ |url-status=live }} * {{cite book |title=Between Syntax and Semantics |first=C. T. 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B. |title=The Elements of Style |edition=3rd |date=1979 |publisher=Allyn & Bacon |isbn=978-0-205-19158-1}} * {{cite book |last1=Strunk |first1=William |last2=White |first2=E. 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