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?
Why in Philadelphia?
I'm Terry gross with fresh air weekend today.
The songwriter, guitarist and singer known as St.
Vincent, she didn't exactly name herself after a saint.
She took her stage name from St.
Vincent's Hospital in New York, where the poet Dylan Thomas died.
Why not use her own name?
I want to have a moniker because I felt like it would give me license and freedom to be bigger than Annie Clark.
And she can go big in her dark lyrics, her sometimes shredding guitar and how she dresses in performance.
Her new album is called All Born screaming.
Also, we talk with child psychiatrist Harold Koplowitz.
His latest book is called Scaffold Raising resilient, self reliant and secure kids in an age of anxiety.
That's coming up on fresh air weekend.
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