"Yankees suck" constitutes profanity?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri May 27 02:58:09 UTC 2011


At 10:32 PM -0400 5/26/11, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>Here we go again...
>
>http://www2.tbo.com/sports/rays/2011/may/25/7/this-yankees-hating-shirt-got-rays-fan-in-trouble-ar-232531/
>
>--bgz
>
I was going to say that in Boston, half the fans in Fenway Park would
guess that "Yankees Suck" is Scripture.  But that becomes clear later
in the article.  "Banned outside of Boston", it appears.

LH

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