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(Score: 3, Informative) by NickFortune on Friday July 03 2015, @03:05PM
Currently, Wikipedia says
Which, as a definition, sounds about right to me.
(My wife tells me she is "vertically challenged". I say she's just "differently tall". I get my nose pulled.)
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday July 04 2015, @05:09AM
Don't forget about not offending business. Here in Canada the government has really attacked anyone using the term "tar sands" to refer to the bitumen containing sand that eventually yields synthetic oil. Gotta call it "oil sands" even if it is more alike the asphalt that you drive on, and when heated is very tarry.
There are lots of cases of businesses pushing terminology that is not as descriptive but more "friendly and correct"