Says Annie Proulx: "I collect dictionaries of work and trades, of dialects and phrases. Some dictionaries have been bowdlerized by the compilers. Dictionaries of logging and maritime terms, which should be rich in graphic sexual imagery, are nearly always sanitized and prefaced by an ex-logger's or ex-sailor's wish not to offend anyone. I am offended by the deletions." (The New Yorker, 12/25/2000)