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On 2020-06-13, [[John Chew]] asked on behalf of the NASPA [[Executive Committee]] that the NASPA [[Advisory Board]] (AB) consider removing words that he described as '''slurs''' from the [[NWL2018|NASPA Word List (2018) Edition]].
The AB discussed the matter by email over subsequent days, and then in a Zoom call on 2020-06-18, concluded that further public input was called for. A special [[iContact]] mailing went out, quoting the [http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=1384631&f=6038&s=14937&m=289409&t=42bfeecf990f5ae04e8a9ea793c9a29e79393ee2e6b4b72ecef1a231ef1a0fa9 original letter] and inviting comment through an [https://scrabble.formstack.com/forms/removing_slurs online form]. On 2020-07-05, we stopped gathering data from that form, and the AB will spend the week discussing the survey results before reaching its decision.
To avoid repeating contextually offensive language, the public communications did not list the words in question, identifying one of them only as the N word.