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.
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I'm Terry Gross.
Like everyone who introduces my guest, I'll start by telling you that he's famous as the hot priest in the award winning comedy series Fleabag.
That priest is torn between his vow of celibacy and his love for a woman who loves him.
It was a lot more than Andrew Scott's looks that made him a standout.
He is a magnetic and subtle actor, whether his character is delightful or a sociopath.
Scott first became known in the US for his role in the british series Sherlock, which starred Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Andrew Scott as his nemesis, Moriarty.
A famous film you probably dont remember him in is Steven Spielbergs World War two film Saving Private Ryan, where Scott played the role of soldier on the beach, one of the many soldiers on the beach in the film who landed on the Normandy beach on D Day.
Scott returned to World War two with Steven Spielberg in the series Band of Brothers after doing a share of suffering and World War two stories.
He played a burned out, cynical, wisecracking lieutenant in the World War one film, 1917.
Recently, he won british and american acting awards, including a National Society of Film Critics award, for his role in the very quiet film all of Us strangers, about a gay man who shut down his emotions.
Now he stars in a new Netflix series called Ripley, which is an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel the talented Mister Ripley.
He plays Tom Ripley, a con man with no conscience.
I think it would be fair to call him a sociopath.
After surviving financially on small time scams, he lands a bigger one when a wealthy man, Mister Greenleaf, tracks him down with a proposition involving his son, Dickie.