How marriage words evolved over centuries
by Melissa Mohr
Dec 12, 2022
2 minutes
Recent announcements on Equally Wed, a platform for planning LGBTQ+ weddings, reveal couples choosing nontraditional words to describe themselves and their celebrations. is a combination of and , and is used by nonbinary people who feel they don’t fit neatly into either category; so is . A gender-neutral word for people committing themselves to one another is . These aren’t the first changes in the words for a wedding’s most crucial participants. Even , , and were once innovations.
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