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''The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook'' is a book written by
Henry Beard Henry Nichols Beard (born June 7, 1945) is an American humorist, one of the founders of the magazine ''National Lampoon (magazine), National Lampoon'' and the author of several best-selling books. Life and career Beard, a great-grandson of 14t ...
and Christopher Cerf. It was published in 1992 by
Villard Books Villard, also known as Villard Books, is a publishing imprint of Random House, one of the largest publishing companies in the world, owned by Bertelsmann since 1998 and grouped in Penguin Random House since 2013. It was founded in 1983. Villard b ...
in New York, by Grafton in London, and, by
Random House of Canada Limited Random House of Canada was the Canadian distributor for Random House, Inc. from 1944 until 2013. On July 1, 2013, it amalgamated with Penguin Canada to become Penguin Random House Canada. Company history Random House of Canada was established in ...
in Toronto. An updated edition was published in 1994. It was a bestseller that was called "tongue in cheek", "outrageously funny", "hilariously rewarding for people who have not read any non-humorous works on its subject and who enjoy satire", and has been called "thoroughly sourced".Geoffrey Hughes. ''Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture''. Wiley. 2011. Page
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See also

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Campaign Against Political Correctness The Campaign Against Political Correctness was a lobby group in the United Kingdom created to oppose what its founders described as political correctness. Aims The campaign was founded by John and Laura Midgley in 2004. The campaign had the p ...
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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories ''My Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times'' is a 1994 book written by American writer James Finn Garner, in which Garner satirizes the trend toward political correctness and censorship of children's literature, with an ...
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Politically Incorrect ''Political correctness'' (adjectivally: ''politically correct''; commonly abbreviated ''PC'') is a term used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in socie ...


References


Further reading

*''The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook''. Villard Books. 1992. . *"peak guide" The New Review of the Low Pay Unit, Issues 1-20, p 1

*Peter Newmark. "PC" (November 1993) reprinted in ''More Paragraphs on Translation''. Topics in Translation Series. Multilingual Matters. 1998.
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*Tom Aitken
"Past a Joke"
The Tablet. 27 March 1993. p 18.
"Look it up in your tree carcass"
''Baltimore Sun''. 9 November 1993. *Lauren Lipton
"A Cerebrally Deprived Notion"
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