LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off the tour

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Dennis Baron <debaron at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
> There's a new post on the Web of Language: LPGA to golfers: speak
> English or get off the tour
>
> http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage

Bowing to criticism, the LPGA has reversed its decision.

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-lpga-english&prov=ap&type=lgns


--Ben Zimmer

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