tongue troopers
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
tongue troopers pl (plural only)
- (informal, derogatory) Language police.
- (Canada, informal, derogatory, specifically) The Office québécois de la langue française (Quebec Board of the French Language)
- 1983, Newsweek:
- UPDATE Jacques Nadeau Levesque: Sending in 'the tongue troopers"
- 2001, Robert Bothwell, A Traveller's History of Canada, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated
- To enforce the law, the government established an Office de la langue française, whose inspectors were promptly dubbed "the language police" or "the tongue troopers".
Synonyms[edit]
- (derogatory: the Office québécois de la langue française): language police