Date:  Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:04:35 -0800
From:  Gail Stygall <stygall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Re: PC Dictionaries?

Maybe the lexicographers among us can answer this question. Why are the
racial and ethnic epithets found in all the dicitionaires defined as a
*person* rather than as *racial and ethnic epithets*? Isn't that what's
being objected to here? Is there some semantic rule that requires the
definition to be person rather than epithet?
Gail
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Editor, _CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric_
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