9.25.2010

No. Friggin'. Way.

Banned Books Week: 10 banned books you might not expect - Yahoo! News

When it comes to banning books, even the dictionary gets no respect. The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary was pulled from the shelf of a school in Menifee, Calif. The offending term in the dictionary? "Oral sex." The entry references of the dictionary also included cunnilingus and fellatio, which were not cited as the reasons for pulling the dictionary off the shelf.

OK, way. But really. How bizarre is it when the dictionary gets banned because it has bad words? 

And yes, this is uncharitable I know but I can't help it, why is it I imagine the very people who objected to this book are the people who bitch about schools being no good and about paying school taxes? I can't help it. I do.

PS. 

The American Heritage Dictionary of 1969 was also banned in 1978 from a library in Eldon, Mo., because of 39 objectionable words. The dictionary continued to cause trouble as far away as Alaska, where it was banned by the Anchorage School Board in 1987 for its inclusion of slang words, including "balls."

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