gender-neutrality
61his — For his or her see gender neutrality. For the use of his to refer back to one, see one …
62no one — nobody, no one Like anybody and anyone, these are largely interchangeable, but no one is written as two words because noone would be too awkward. In a use such as No one person was responsible, no and one retain their separate meanings instead of …
63nobody — nobody, no one Like anybody and anyone, these are largely interchangeable, but no one is written as two words because noone would be too awkward. In a use such as No one person was responsible, no and one retain their separate meanings instead of …
64our — our, ours 1. A difficulty arises when our is used in conjunction with another qualifying word as in The Italian and our troops or Our and the Italian troops. Here a better alternative is The Italian troops and ours, but not ☒ Ours and the Italian …
65ours — our, ours 1. A difficulty arises when our is used in conjunction with another qualifying word as in The Italian and our troops or Our and the Italian troops. Here a better alternative is The Italian troops and ours, but not ☒ Ours and the Italian …
66possessive pronouns and determiners — For various points concerning these, see gender neutrality; his; our, ours; they, them, their …
67sexist language — Roughly since the 1970s, certain established uses of language have come to be regarded as discriminatory against women, either because they are based on male terminology or because women appear to be given a status that is linguistically and… …
68-woman — This suffix denoting female occupations is in decline as the search for gender neutrality gathers pace. Policewoman has been largely replaced by police officer (or woman police constable, WPC), chairwoman, spokeswoman, and others by forms in… …
69international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
70United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
