Words now banned by The Guardian … good name for a newspaper out of “1984”

David Davis

From last week’s Spectator:-

According to Rod Liddle, these are some of the words and phrases banned by the Guardian:

active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.

Full article:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/2189336/part_3/why-has-the-word-grandmother-been-banned-by-the-guardian.thtml