On the Ted Radio Hour, linguist Anne Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.

I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me but it can't be

singular and I will say but it is.

The history behind words causing a lot of debate that's on the Ted Radio Hour from NPR.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Deepishivaram. I cover the White House.

I'm Frank Ordonez. I cover the campaign. And I'm Carrie Johnson. I cover the White House. I'm Frank Ordonias I cover the campaign and I'm

Kerry Johnson I cover the Justice Department. It is 646 p.m. on Thursday, May 30th

2024 and former President Donald Trump is guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

That verdict was handed down this afternoon by a jury in a New York court.

The charges in this trial which has been going on for the last six weeks now stem from hush money payments that Trump authorized to kill damaging stories in advance of the 2016 presidential election.

Franco-Kerry, I mean a pretty stunning moment in American political history today, right, the first time a former or current president has ever been found guilty in a criminal case.

And obviously this isn't just a former president.

Trump is a current presidential candidate as well, so I know unprecedented is a word we keep

tossing around a lot, especially on a week like this, but it really is an unprecedented moment,

Carrie. It really is. unprecedented moment carry it really is and you

know while we were doing live coverage of this moment I was getting a lot of

text messages unfortunately on my cell phone and one of them came in from a lawyer who's been

involved in the legal community here and elsewhere around the country and

the text message said no person is above the law.

And you know, that's been a pillar of our legal system

since its founding, really.

And now we have the idea of a former president

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