tongue troopers

English

Noun

tongue troopers pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, derogatory) Language police.
  2. (Canada, informal, derogatory, specifically) The Office québécois de la langue française (Quebec Board of the French Language)
    • 1983, Newsweek:
      UPDATE Jacques Nadeau Levesque: Sending in 'the tongue troopers"
    • 2001, Robert Bothwell, A Traveller's History of Canada, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated
      To enforce the law, the government established an Office de la langue française, whose inspectors were promptly dubbed "the language police" or "the tongue troopers".

Synonyms
  • (derogatory: the Office québécois de la langue française): language police
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