Last week, farmer Fergus Howie made headlines by calling for derogatory terms like ‘pigging out’, ‘fat pig’ and ‘porker’ to be banned from the Oxford English Dictionary, not because they insult humans but because they insult pigs, being inaccurate and misleading. Howie’s concern is economical: he worries that language like this creates the perception that … Continue reading Yes, we should ban ‘porker’ from the dictionary – but there are better reasons than profitability