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School district bans the dictionary to comply with Ron DeSantis’s book-ban law
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What's next; banning certain letters from the alphabet, because they can be used for banned texts?
Erdoğan unbanned the letters Q, W and X, which can be used for Kurdish texts, in his 2013 reforms, so I think it'd be a bit too soon to re-ban them now already, so that's probably not next.
I had to look this up, but it is a fact that certain letters were banned. I should not be so amazed. Back in the 1960's the Greek junta banned the letter Z, because it meant 'he is alive.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(1969_film) the movie is a fictional, but based on the actual events.
The one thing that amazed me was that it was Erdoğan of all people who eventually found it politically expedient to lift the ban.
TIL