Washington Examiner Reports: The Associated Press regrets to inform you that the Little Sisters of the Poor are canceled. Martin Luther King is also done. And Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount is obviously offensive.

Specifically, the Associated Press believes that nominalized adjectives are harmful and should be avoided. Their style guide — which used to function as something of an industry standard-setter for word choice and style but which recently has taken clear sides in the culture wars — tweeted a risible new rule last week.

The Associated Press followed this with an embarrassing apology and also reasserted their opposition to nominalized adjectives. Oddly for a style guide, the tweets are very unclear, which led many readers to worry that definite articles were being canceled. What the Associated Press really objected to was turning an adjective into a collective noun by adding “the” beforehand.

For instance, the Little Sisters of the Poor use “the poor” in their name to mean “the poor people.” This is not an odd usage.