Emil Kucera wrote in a message to Vicki Nichols:
>     No, but in politically-correct Arizona the drive is on to eliminate
>offensive sounding words - last year they renamed a hill that had been 
alled
>Spook Hill for a hundred years after some cattle getting spooked there.  It 
is
EK> Huh?  Who-what-which-why is called "spook" in a derogatory
EK> context? Please edify me!
     The NAACP says "spook" is a derogatory term for people of African 
descent.
EK> I would have expected Arizona to be more free of pol-corr
EK> than most. Who's next, Texas?!?
     We thought we were the last bastian of free speech.  Oh, well, we've 
been wrong before.
EK> The Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature here in Winnipeg was
EK> at a centre of some stupid controversy a few years back.
EK> Some poor misguided souls thought the name sexist;
EK> fortunately it petered out, mainly, I think, because some
EK> funding was tied to the name as it stands.
     Oh, good grief.  I have to explain constantly why I am not offended that 
my trade licenses, both of them, read journeyMAN.
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