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Really, Associated Press? From a story about stickers that are attached to “nuisance” houses in Narraganset, Rhode Island:
The police, meanwhile, have continued to distribute the stickers while the court case continues, including one last month for an underage keg party involving a game of “beer pong.”
Does beer pong really require scare quotes? I asked our esteemed copy editor, Nicole McClelland. “Absolutely not,” she says. “Beer pong is totally legit, and therefore needs neither quotes nor introduction. It’s not in the dictionary yet, but soon, my friend, soon.”
There you have it. Come on now, AP.
