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What's In a Pronoun
Three years ago, I sent out a newsletter about the use of the word it to refer to animals. Now that I am more experienced with trying to meet this goal and to paying more attention to how people use it, I wanted to return to the subject. Based on recent articles and books I have read, the use of it is still rampant and the main way people indicate an animal, whether they know the animal’s sex or not. For example, I often read news articles about a doe or buck, sow or boar, hen or rooster, terms that specifically indicate female or male, and yet, the author describes the deer, pig, or chicken…
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