Graffiti it is a rapidly developing art form whose value is highly contested and reviled by many authorities while also subject to protection, sometimes within the same jurisdiction. Both "graffiti" and its occasional singular form "graffito" are from the Italian word "graffiato" ("scratched"). "Graffiti" is applied in art history to works of art produced by scratching a design into a surface. A related term is "sgraffito", which involves scratching through one layer of pigment to reveal another beneath it. This technique was primarily used by potters who would glaze their wares and then scratch a design into it. In ancient times
Singular they acceptable only to a minority of speakers" but "likely to increase with the growing acceptance of "they" as a singular pronoun". It is useful when referring to a single person of indeterminate gender, where the plural form "themselves" might seem incongruous, as in: The Canadian government recommends "themselves" as the reflexive form of singular "they" for use in Canadian federal legislative texts and advises against using "themself", but "themself" is also found: "They" with a singular antecedent goes back to the Middle English of the 14th century (slightly younger than "they" with a plural antecedent, which was borrowed from Old