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  2. I use people's preferred pronouns out of respect. Not because ...

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    His Christian faith wasn’t a problem for him as an instructor at Shawnee State University until 2016 when the school required that he refer to students by their preferred pronouns. That policy ...

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  4. Preferred gender pronoun - Wikipedia

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    Some people omit the word "preferred", calling them "gender pronouns" or simply "pronouns" to emphasize that correct use of pronouns is a social obligation rather than an individual preference. There is concern that including "preferred" in the name may cause the perception that using an individual's PGPs is optional. [37] Levin states that ...

  5. Teachers should not be ‘compelled’ to address pupils by their ...

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    Teachers and pupils in England will not be “compelled” to use a child’s preferred pronouns, the Government’s transgender guidance has said.

  6. Controlled vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the Library of Congress Subject Headings [6] (a subject heading system that uses a controlled vocabulary), preferred terms—subject headings in this case—have to be chosen to handle choices between variant spellings of the same word (American versus British), choice among scientific and popular terms (cockroach versus ...

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    The advice in this guideline is not limited to the examples provided and should not be applied rigidly. If a word can be replaced by one with less potential for misunderstanding, it should be. [1] Some words have specific technical meanings in some contexts and are acceptable in those contexts, e.g. claim in law.

  8. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (ships)

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    Do not use the definite article the before a prefix or when introducing a ship for the first time; e.g., at the beginning of the lead section: HMS Victory was ..., not The HMS Victory was ... Generally, a definite article is not needed before a ship's name, although its use is not technically wrong: Victory was Nelson's flagship ... (preferred)

  9. Double negative - Wikipedia

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    The particle is usually omitted in speech but the mutation remains: [Ni] wyddai neb (word-for-word, "[Not] not-knew nobody") means "Nobody knew" and [Ni] chaiff Aled fawr o bres (word-for-word, "[Not] not-will-get Aled lots of money") means "Aled will not get much money". This is not usually regarded as three negative markers, however, because ...