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Dictionary.com Destroys Transphobic Celebrity Who Tried to Say “They” Isn’t a Singular Pronoun

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Dictionary.com is a great resource, and their presence on Twitter is honestly a breath of fresh air in this era of misinformation we find ourselves living in.

Take, for instance, what happened when notoriously controversial actor James Woods recently put out a not-so-subtly transphobic tweet about gender pronouns.

Woods essentially argued that “they” can only be used as a plural pronoun, and that using it as a singular pronoun is just an invention of “hare-brained liberals.”

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Well… it wasn’t long before Dictionary.com stepped in to drop some knowledge:

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Boom!

This is hardly Dictionary.com’s first foray into the realm of trolling bigots. They’ve used their extensive knowledge of the English language to serve up tasty burns to all sorts of people. Like Vice President Mike Pence…

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The word, by the way, is “sycophant.”

And of course, being the lovable language nerds that they are, they couldn’t let the president slide for his misspelling of the word “collusion.”

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Generally speaking, any time the president needs to learn some new words, Dictionary.com is there with a helpful suggestion.

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Dear Dictionary.com,

Please, never stop being who you are. Thanks.

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