Let’s see…off the top of my head rather than looking in a dictionary…
-fer
-late
-ition
-parent (that pun is the title of a Netflix show of course)
-cendent
-itory
Quite a few words to render meaningless.
H/t soogeeoh
Let’s see…off the top of my head rather than looking in a dictionary…
-fer
-late
-ition
-parent (that pun is the title of a Netflix show of course)
-cendent
-itory
Quite a few words to render meaningless.
H/t soogeeoh
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7 responses to “Beware of Ctrl+H”
“cdesignproponentsists” strikes again!
-port
-Alpine
-istor
Transfers are fers!
Ha! Thank you! I was trying of the famous precedent and couldn’t.
Why are they doing this in the first place? Is the idea to wipe out all mention of “trans women” and “trans men”, so that readers will be left just with “women” (who are, unbeknownst to the reader, men) and “men” (who are, unbenkownst to the reader, women)?
Bjarte, there’s a blast from the past.
Somebody accidentally the editing room.
The Scunthorpe reference is to a famous example from the UK.
On a similar note, when I worked at Newcastle University, the ‘other’ university (universally called ‘the poly’ because it was a polytechnic decades earlier) was rebranding. Someone I knew who worked there swore that one of the shortlisted candidate names was City University of Newcastle upon Tyne.