13 Books We Bet You Never Knew Were Banned

The Dictionary

Wait…what? Some students working on their spelling might have been out of luck when the teacher asked them to “look it up.” In 1987, the Anchorage School Board in Alaska banned the American Heritage Dictionary because it had “objectionable” entries, like the slang definitions for “balls,” “knocker,” and “bed.” A California elementary school banned Merriam Webster from its shelves because the definition of oral sex was “not age appropriate.” Guess those students couldn’t look up the most complicated (and only three-lettered) word in the English language.