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From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. I'm John McWater

at Columbia University. I teach linguistics among other things. My latest books are

talking back, talking black, and words on the move why English can't and won't sit

still like literally. Today, what I want to talk about is something that I think concerns

us all and that I think there are ways of looking at that don't necessarily occur to us.

What I mean can be exemplified by the simple fact that in 1922 there was established a

society called the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples. That's what it

was called and that was considered progressive and completely okay. Now in 1960, as you might

imagine, the name of this place was changed to the International Society for the Rehabilitation

of the Disabled, not the Welfare of Cripples. But that exemplifies a phenomenon that we're

all familiar with and that in some ways frustrates us, which is that a term that's considered

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