de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception
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We all know Huckleberry Finn is replete with the word nigger, now referred to as the N-word ...
The word appears 219 times. Plans are afoot to release an edition replacing the offending word with 'slave' - curiously this word is less offensive.

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