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language police

n. Any person or group crusading for a particular usage or omission within a language; also called ''language cops'', ''tongue troopers''.

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Language police

Language police may refer to:

  • The Language Police, a book by Diane Ravitch
  • Latvian State Language Center, a Latvian government body
  • State Language Inspectorate, a Lithuanian government body
  • Language Inspectorate, an Estonian government body
  • Office québécois de la langue française, a Quebec government office
  • Minister of Culture (France), a French office known as the "language police"

Usage examples of "language police".

Thanks to the language police, you can say goodbye to Shakespeare, Hemingway, and Chaucer.

It was decorated-to use the word as loosely as the language police would allow -in a style best described as Early Garage Sale, though it was even more Spartan than the family room.