Proprietary words

It used to be that company taglines were the only proprietary words in the dictionary – and that was bad enough. But things are getting worse, and the Associated Press now apparently thinks that if you want to copy and paste an excerpt of even just 5 words from one of their articles, you should pay them twelve bucks fifty, thank you very much.

Update: It’s worse than I thought: they will even sell you words in the public domain!

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