A Massachusetts-based dictionary publisher agreed to describe as offensive some 200 words appearing in a forthcoming dictionary. But a spokesman for Merriam- Webster said the company was refusing to bow to pressures to have words such as “nigger,” “kike” and “queer” removed from its 1999 Collegiate Dictionary.
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