THE A-Z OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Asian 	Should not be used as it is a 'term of convenience'
Asylum Seeker 	'Almost pejorative'
British 	Use only to include 'all in our multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society'
Businessman 	'Implies an evaluation of the sexes'
Coloured 	'Offensive'
Common Sense 	'Becomes problematic when there are parties from differing cultural backgrounds with their differing views of the world'
Epileptic 	Use 'person with epilepsy'
Ethnics 	Patronising, use 'minority ethnic' but not 'minority ethnics'
Evening 	The notion of time can be relative. Evening can mean something completely different to a Scottish person and a Spanish person
Girl 	See Businessman (but can be used for a child)
Half-caste 	Offensive, use 'mixed parentage' but not 'mixed race'
Handicapped 	'Insulting'
He, She, Him, Her 	Judges should use 'gender neutral language' such as 'they' or 'them' instead
Immigrants 	'Highly inaccurate given the time the majority have been settled here in the UK. The term is exclusionary and liable to offend.'
Man and wife 	See Businessman
Mental Handicap 	Use 'learning disabilities or difficulties '
Mental Illness 	Judges should say 'mental health problems' instead.
Mixed race 	'Slightly pejorative to the extent that it focuses on the racial identity of the parents
Mr, Mrs, Ms 	'Given the history of marriage in the subordination of women it should come as no surprise that many women find it offensive to be referred to by reference to their marital status or their husband's name.'
Normal 	To be avoided as a comparison with disabled people
People of colour 	'Popular in the USA, implies inferior status'
Sleeping policemen 	'The 1989 Bar vocational evidence exam question with reference to sleeping policemen was failed by the vast majority of non-ethic English students'
Suffer from an illness 	People must simply 'have' an illness
The blind 	Use 'blind people' or 'people who are blind'. Similar rules apply to deaf people, who may also be 'deaf without speech'
Visible minorities 	'Problematic' because it implies invisible minorities.
West Indian 	'Colonial overtones'
Wheelchair bound 	Use 'wheelchair user'

I have had to eat my words! I said above that the word 'black' seemed doomed to erasure. But according to this book its associations are now 'positive as a result of the political civil liberties movements in the 1960's and 1970's.' I'm glad that its reprieve has come through!!

What a false, sterile and humourless society these PC idiots want to live in - reminiscent of the Soviet Union during the last century.