Try Not To Provoke the Old People

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By: John E. McIntyre | The Baltimore Sun

An article in The Sun last week characterized a sixty-eight-year-old woman trapped in a burning boat in the harbor as "elderly."  

We should have known better than that. The Associated Press Stylebook urges the same kind of caution about elderly that it observes for racial and ethnic terms: "Use this word carefully and sparingly. Do not refer to a person as elderly unless it is clearly relevant to the story."































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