U.K.’s Bournemouth Borough Council has placed a ban on 19 Latin terms and phrases it no longer considers acceptable for use. Among the words banned:

• Ad lib
• Bona fide
• Etc., or et cetera
• Per
• Vice versa, and
• Via.

Linguistic and cultural professionals liken the move to ethnic cleansing, but other factions support the ban.

The Plain English Campaign congratulated the council for the move, saying it’s a tremendous service for those who speak English as a second language. “They might mistake ‘eg’ for ‘egg’ and little things like that can confuse people,” said the foundation’s spokesperson.

Dr. Peter Jones, co-founder of the Friends of Classics charity, argues the opposite, claiming “the great strength of English is that it has a massive infusion of Latin.”

Bournemouth’s Council should have a hard time arguing against that logic — its motto still remains “Pulchritudo et Salubritas,” or “beauty and health.”