All nouns in Spanish have a gender. They are either masculine or they are feminine. Every noun is either one or the other and you just have to learn them. But there are some clues. Un problema is a ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. If you die in some states and your son is appointed to handle your estate, he is the “executor.” If it’s your daughter ...

When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Many languages give gender to their nouns, but not English, though that was not always the case. Until about the 1200s, English ...

“Stand beside her, and guide her,” we sing in “God Bless America.” Come to think of it, most nations of the world are referred to in the female gender. Why is that? English is one of the few languages ...