The Washington Times Doesn't Do "Nitty Gritty"

Andrea Billups, who recently re-joined the Washington Times, once commented on an interesting editorial policy (?) at the paper.

I once worked at a paper where the top editor banned in a memo use of the term ‘nitty gritty,’ claiming it was Jazz-era slang for female genitalia. Having looked it up, I’m fairly sure that it’s not. I suppose I would agree that it’s jargon, though. But that was never the argument. It seems, in retrospect, a tad nutty if you ask me, but most editors, if they last long enough, come up with these insipid sacred cows that they enforce just because they can.

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