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.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Ram.

Donald Trump is now the first former U.S. President convicted of a felony. A jury in New York today found him

guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide hush money payments to

an adult film star as part of a scheme to bury negative stories about him

during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.

NPR's Andrea Bernstein was in the courtroom when the verdict was announced.

On the way out, I saw Donald Trump give his son Eric, who is basically the person running

his company now and has been there many days, sort of a slap on the hand in a tight handshake, which was sort of an unusual

acknowledgement of Eric there.

He walked out of the courtroom.

Alvin Bragg, the district attorney, looked straight ahead, absolutely impassive.

The prosecutors who actually tried the case were pretty stoic like they always are, but it did

look like their shoulders relaxed a little bit after the verdict.

NPR's Andrea Bernstein.

Sentencing has been scheduled for July 11th.

The Republican National Convention is scheduled to begin four days later.

Trump is expected to begin four days later.

Trump is expected to be nominated as the GOP candidate for president.

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