AJR  Letters
From AJR,   February/March 2006

Going Native   


When I was a stringer for Memphis' Commercial Appeal, its Mid-South editor, the late Eugene Rutland, told me that Editor Frank Ahlgren had banned from the paper the word "native" unless referring to a North American Indian. ("Everyone's a Grammarian," October/November 2005.)

William A. Klutts
Editor & Publisher
Lauderdale County Enterprise
Ripley, Tennessee

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