Forum Newsfront

February, 1977

Dirty WordsCedar Lake, Indiana—School-board officials have removed dictionaries from a local high school after parents complained of too many spicy definitions. According to the school superintendent, "The American Heritage Collegiate Dictionary" contains "maybe 70 or 80 words" that some parents think are obscene or otherwise inappropriate. Some are common expletives and colloquialisms for body parts and functions. Others are definitions based on word usage. One of the defini...