Banning Cassell's

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 6/24/06, Jonathon Green <slang at abecedary.net> wrote:
>
> Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> >
> > In Wake County, NC, a local Christian activist group and some parents
> > have challenged the school district's use of five books -- including
> > Cassell's Dictionary of Slang.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > In any case, it's pretty good publicity for the revised edition, eh Jonathon?
>
> It is not, I might suggest, their deity but his self-proclaimed
> representatives who move in mysterious ways. But I am duly grateful.
>
> As for the Guardian, well, one has friends, and as I think Truman Capote
> (I may as ever be wrong) once averred: a boy's gotta hustle his book.

I discuss the Wake County challenge (inter alia) in this Language Log post:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003285.html


--Ben Zimmer

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