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: ''Our word list is composed of words that are found in any one of several college-level dictionaries. If the word appears in our source dictionaries only in senses that are tagged as being offensive, then we consider it offensive.''
; Who decides which offensive words are slurs?
: ''The initial selection was made by [[Dictionary CommitteeJohn Chew]] chair John Chew, and it has since been revised based on public input.''
; Who decides which words will be deleted?
: ''The words in the proposed list will be individually checked against [[Merriam-Webster]]'s current online word list to confirm that they are labelled in all lower-case senses as at least sometimes disparaging, offensive, obscene or vulgar. All that meet these criteria will be deleted.''