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Geoffrey Hughes. Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Political correctness has brought about a new vocabulary of words into our culture with terms like homophobic, multicultural, Eurocentric, disadvantaged, physically challenged, carbon footprint, sex worker, lookism, fattisi, phallocentric, waitron, wimmin, differently abled, and DWEM (dead white European males). According to Geoffrey Hughes, these are not simply new words in the way that Shakespeare's be-all and end-all, unmanned, assassination, and yesterdays, were...