"Macaca" named most politically incorrect word
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"Macaca" you are number one. The word "macaca," used by outgoing Republican Senator George Allen of Virginia to describe a Democratic activist of Indian descent who was trailing his campaign, was named the most politically incorrect word of the year on Friday by Global Language Monitor, a nonprofit group that studies word usage.
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Â· Speech posted on liberal Anglican websiteÂ· College principal under fire from some staff
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Plus: eBay outlines policy on racist language. [News.com Extra]
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Our story from May 30, 2007 headlined &quot;Man eats dog in protest against Britain&#39;s royals&quot; contained a reference to Yoko Ono. This was inaccurate and Reuters has apologised to Ono for the error. There follows a repeat of the corrected story published on June 4.
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Well, it's election time in the Republic of the Philippines, and that means the monkeys are rolling around in those political barrels, having as much fun as they can while laughing their heads off at the strange goings-on that characterize a democratic process loosely based on the American model  but that de facto looks more like a Fellini movie crossed with a Tom and Jerry cartoon - column includes a useful election-year glossary!
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Washoe captured the worldâs attention and set off a debate over nonhuman primatesâ ability to learn human language that continues to this day.
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CHICAGO - "Animal Grossology," the new exhibition at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, could easily have been a lot grosser. Sure, there's plastic excrement in the exhibit room, skunk scent for spritzing, and robot animals that use cutesy terms like "barf" and "dookie" while talking about hairballs and digestive tracts...
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US Dictionary Merriam-Websterâs has announced that the word âblogâ is their word of the year in their annual pronouncement of the Top 10 words of 2004, which also bizarrely included the words cicada and defenestration.
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A FOUR-LETTER term that came to symbolise the difference between old and new media tops US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster&#39;s list of the 10 words of the year.
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Tycho:  Our newest comic is available here, regarding the blogger that Nintendo fired recently.  As usual, Gabriel and I disagree absolutely on virtually every point of this discussion, my own perspective favoring greater liberty while he presents a naked defense of fascism.  The two universal axioms we were both able to agree upon were that:
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To some, it's a hurtful racial epithet. For Nas, it's an album title. The rapper told MTV News that he would indeed be naming his new album after the N-word. And he denied earlier reports that the album's title would be spelled "N---a," considered in some circles a less inflammatory epithet. He said the disc is due out Dec. 11.
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New York declared the n-word off limits to all races Wednesday in a purely symbolic resolution prompted by the increasingly casual use of the slur in hip-hop music, comedy and street slang.
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A ban on a racial epithet after the Michael Richards affair leads to a soul-searching debate.
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RSPB neuters forum Bird botherers down at RSPB forums are in a flap over the avian conservation charity's censoring of the word "cock".â¦
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To some, it's a hurtful racial epithet. For Nas, it's an album title.
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies.
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New York City symbolically banned use  of the word nigger on Wednesday, the latest step in a campaign  that hopes to expunge the most vile of racial slurs from hip  hop music and television.