SAY IT IN ALL CAPS:  Linda Holmes lists 50 Wonderful Things From 2015.

WHOEVER DISAGREES WITH THIS IS OUT OF THEIR MIND:  The Web of Language blog has named the singular they as its word of the year. As Ben Zimmer reported for the WSJ back in April:

According to standard grammar, “they” and its related forms can only agree with plural antecedents. But English sorely lacks a gender-neutral singular third-person pronoun, and “they” has for centuries been pressed into service for that purpose, much to the grammarians’ chagrin. Now, it seems, those who have held the line against singular “they” may be easing their stance.

“They” most often turns singular in common usage when its antecedent is considered generic, not referring to a single known person. Nearly everyone would find that they can stomach the “they” in this very sentence, agreeing with “nearly everyone.”

Things get trickier when the antecedent of “they” more clearly refers to one person. Areader of this column may not like what they see in this sentence, for instance.

AND BLUE IVY CAN INDUCT HER MOM:  Good question from Randy during tonight's Kennedy Center Honors: predict the honorees of 2035.

IT'S NOT HIS FAULT:  Someone tried to figure out the cost of all the cinematic missions to save Matt Damon from Mars/the Middle East/WW2 France/etc.

NEVER GON' BE PRESIDENT NOW:  The ALOTT5MA Founding Fathers (With or Without Fathers) Sex Scandal Desk wants you to know that Alexander Hamilton may have had some reasons to publish the Reynolds Pamphlet, whose contents you can read here:

She told me the street and the number of the house where she lodged. In the evening I put a bank-bill in my pocket and went to the house. I inquired for Mrs. Reynolds and was shewn up stairs, at the head of which she met me and conducted me into a bed room. I took the bill out of my pocket and gave it to her. Some conversation ensued from which it was quickly apparent that other than pecuniary consolation would be acceptable.

Or just listen.

N.B. Took the kids to the Washington Crossing reenactment yesterday. No one was specifically designated as Hamilton or Burr. Also, it was sixty-plus freakin' degrees.

BILLY MACK, KIRSTY MACCOLL SCREWED AGAIN:  At least it was the NHS Choir, and not that Canadian twit, winning this year's UK Christmas #1.

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