On the Ted radio hour, linguist Ann Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.
I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me, but it can't be singular.
And I will say, but it is the history behind words causing a lot of debate.
That's on the Ted radio hour from NPR.
From why yy in Philadelphia, I'm Terry gross with fresh air weekend.
Shot through the heart, and you're too late, darling, you give love a bad name.
John Bon Jovi has sung his anthems in stadiums around the world.
After developing vocal problems.
Two years ago, he had risky vocal surgery.
Today, we talk about his recovery, his long career and the things he looks back on and laughs at, like some of his stage clothes.
Is there something you particularly regret being?
Oh, the eighties.
Also, we hear from fantasy author Leigh Bardugo, best known for Hawaii a trilogy, Shadow and Bone.
Bardugo's new adult novel the Familiar, set during the Spanish Inquisition, is about a young woman who can perform miracles.
And book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews a new collection of letters by Emily Dickinson that's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
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