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"We very clearly had made a mistake," said the marketing director of Merriam-Webster, explaining her company's decision to pull an on-line thesaurus that included "faggot" and "fruit" as synonyms for "homosexual." While many homophiles freely use expressions like "faggot" and "fruity," and "butch," they reserve the . . .

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