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.
This is fresh air.
I'm Tyria Gross.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first album by the band Bon Jovi.
Since then, the band has sold more than 130 million albums.
After decades of singing anthemic songs like Living on a Prayer, you give love a bad name and wanted dead or alive in sold out stadiums around the world, my guest, John Bon Jovi, started having vocal problems that got worse over time.
He tried every kind of therapy, and when none of them was effective enough to make a significant difference, he did what he wanted to avoid.
He had surgery.
Although it didn't restore his voice to what it used to be, the surgery made it possible for him to sing again.
Now, John Bon Jovi is the subject of a new documentary called thank you.
Good the Bon Jovi Story.
It alternates between a retrospective of his life and career and his reckoning with his vocal problems over the past few years.
In celebration of the 40th anniversary, a new Bon Jovi album called Forever will be released in June.
1 song Legendary has already been released.
We'll hear that a little later.
This year, in conjunction with the Grammys, Bon Jovi was named the music cares person of the year.