[Sacajaweau]

We all looked up the doggie word...and the illegitimate word....and then we used the dictionary for regular stuff!! That’s the way kids are!!

[docbnj]

That was a close call. If the students had read that definition, they would all have tried it — perhaps in class.

Now that they have been protected from the definition, they will never know, and will never, ever experiment with such things.

Now what do we do about the folks in the town who withdrew the dictionary? Perhaps they were influenced by reading a definition of “stupidity” in a dictionary at an early age, and it predisposed them to act it out in later life.

[discostu]

Yeah that was one of our “hobbies” in elementary school. Go to the big unabridged monster in the library and brainstorm dirty words to look up. Within 3 or 4 words we’d be giggling too loud and the librarian would kick us out.

[w1andsodidwe]

Reminds me, years ago I was working with handicapped children and one called the other the B-word. My tact was to ignore stuff like this, but the person called that name made an issue of it.

So I said "Do you know what that word means? He just called you a lady dog and you like dogs, don't you?"

Well they denied that could be possible, so I got the dictionary and we looked it up and of course I was right. Took all the fun out of that word.

Dictionaries should include these words. Censorship is always stupid.