Date:  Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:57:41 -0600
From:  Dennis Baron <debaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Re: PC Dictionaries?

See relevant articles in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Chicago Trib. The NAACP has
taken up the cause and there is groundswell. M-W has put out a press release.


Dennis



At 02:28 PM 10/27/97 +0000, you wrote:

>CNN reports on a movement to either remove the word "Nigger" from Websters

>Collegiate and other dictionaries or to define it as a word used to

>"oppress a group of people regardless of race."

>

>Though the publisher is resisting, I find this a very worrysome application

>of political correctness.

>

>

>Duane Campbell dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]epix.net

>http://www.epix.net/~dcamp/

>

>

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