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It appears that Apple is currently amending at least one of its English dictionaries, after a 15-year-old American student discovered that one of the informal definitions of the word gay was given as "foolish, stupid, or unimpressive."
Original iPad running iOS 5.1.1
According to Pink News, the student's campaign to have the definition changed has borne so-far limited fruit: "On the MacBook Pro, the word is currently unavailable. If the user enters the search term 'gay' they are asked if they were searching for the word 'ay' instead." It's possible that a new definition will emerge shortly.
Spot checks
Before writing this article I checked the dictionary on my iPad Air, and this shows the old third definition, except with the words "often offensive."
"Gay adjective 3 informal, often offensive foolish, stupid, or unimpressive: making students wait for the light is kind of a gay rule."
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