Under a FOIA (Freedom of Information request) by the Detroit Free Press, the currently banned combinations of letters, numbers, and spaces that have been requested on personal (vanity) license plates is appended to their news article, "Michigan has banned more than 26,000 vehicle license plates" and this discussion shows the many ways language can be played with to evade the 25 reviewers watching for disrespect and other verbal abuses on public motorways. Such things are the natural field of study by linguistic anthropologists.
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