- What is likely to be considered increasingly offensive in the future?
- Wiktionary: English Offensive Terms
- California DMV Vanity Plate Rejections
- Ipsos MORI: Attitudes to potentially offensive language
- Stanford’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative (EHLI)
- Potentially Problematic Common Names in North American Public Gardens
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What is likely to be considered increasingly offensive in the future?
Some words, phrases, and practices that are currently only considered offensive by a minority of people could very well become more widely recognized as problematic in the future. Some examples below blur the line between being an offensive practice versus an offensive term, but are covered here on the site and rated as terms:
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Wiktionary: English Offensive Terms
The site Wikitionary offers an extensive list of “English terms that are typically considered to offend people.” As a wiki, the list of course may be modified as time goes on, but was leveraged to populate terms not yet previously covered in our database via a snapshot of the list taken on January 17th, 2023.…
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California DMV Vanity Plate Rejections
The DMV rejects license plates regularly, and there seem to be a lot of people intentionally trying to slip potentially offensive terms into their vanity plates. California has a reputation that makes its DMV likely to be the most restrictive when it comes to what might be rejected. There’s a great twitter account named @ca-dmv-bot…
