Banning Cassell's

[Jonathon Green]

Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
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> 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.
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> In any case, it's pretty good publicity for the revised edition, eh Jonathon?
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> --Ben Zimmer
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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.

JG

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