Language police
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Language police refers to any person or group crusading for a particular usage or omission within a language; also called language cops, tongue troopers.[1]
- For the book by Diane Ravitch see The Language Police.
- For the Quebec government office called "language police" see Office québécois de la langue française.
- For the French office known as the "language police",[2][3] see Minister of Culture (France)
- Real Academia Española
- ^ language police. (n.d.). Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6). Retrieved September 26, 2006, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/language police
- ^ Jewish World Review
- ^ Congressman Toby Roth, testimony in the U.S. House of Representatives, as reported by PBS. Retrieved September 26, 2006.