Yesterday saw the not-for-profit group the Global Language Monitor release a top 10 of the year's most politically correct words and phrases.

Here's the run down...

Follow up:

1. Misguided Criminals - one of many terms used by the BBC in a frantic attempt to avoid describing the scum behind 7/7 as terrorists.
2. Intrinsic Aptitude - a term coined to explain the underrepresentation of women in science/engineering jobs.
3. Thought shower - because 'brainstorming' might offend people with brain disorders.
4. la racaille - used by the French interior minister to describe the North African/Muslim rioters in Paris
5. Out of the mainstream - used to describe the ideology of any political opponent
6. Deferred Success because a teacher didn't want people to "fail" anymore
7. womyn - because hairy butch feminists thought 'women' reminded them too much of 'men' *
8. C.E. (Common Era) instead of Anno Domini (AD) for dates
9. God Rest Ye Merry Persons and instead of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". They gave a special mention to the use of "Seasons Greetings" instead of "Merry Christmas" too, as well as the replacement of Christmas by "Wintervale" in some schools
10. Mate - or rather the ban on security staff at the Australian Parliament using the term - (the MPs rebelled and said not being called "mate" was unpatriotic).

Last year, Los Angeles county supposedly rid all computer peripheral related mentions of "master/slave" - terms commonly used in describing the configuration of hard drives and CD-ROM drives. Also in last year's running were "waitron" (for waiter/waitress) and the redundant "non-same-sex marriage"