{"id":2125,"date":"2015-09-07T07:58:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2015-09-07T07:58:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:58:17","slug":"mx-added-to-the-oxford-english-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2125","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mx&#8217; added to the Oxford English Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The gender-neutral honorific &#8220;Mx&#8221; has been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. It&#8217;s definition is:<\/p>\n<p>?n: a title used before a person?s surname by those who wish to avoid specifying their gender.?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/08\/27\/mx-and-manspreading-added-to-oxford-dictionary\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The title Mx is a gender-neutral alternative to Mr and Ms, which has grown in use and popularity ? with MPs being sworn into the House of Commons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/05\/26\/mps-given-gender-neutral-option-when-entering-house-of-commons\/\">given the option of the gender neutral title for the first time<\/a> after May?s election.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of a number of gender neutral honourifics, such as Dr. and Rev. ? but is intended for general use instead of specific to a profession.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The gender-neutral honorific &#8220;Mx&#8221; has been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. It&#8217;s definition is: ?n: a title used before a person?s surname by those who wish to avoid specifying their gender.? Via PinkNews: The title Mx is a gender-neutral alternative to Mr and Ms, which has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[342,341,187,340],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-gender-neutral","tag-mx","tag-oed","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}