It is getting beyond a joke. Next we will have republicans wanting the name of Queensland changed because it was named after the young Queen Victoria, and Victoria's name changed because it was also named after her. Incidentally, the PC brigade have always been with us-
Tasmania agitated to have its name changed from Van Dieman's Land in the early 1850's, in an effort to throw off its association with Convict transportation, and because at the time Demon was an early Colonial derogatory name for a Homosexual....
If you go back even further, you find my Saxon forbears punished for using their own language. Words like C*** S*** F*** and many others beside, were actually normal, inoffensive, and legitimate words until the Norman invasion. Norman French being the language of the royal court after that, meant that anything Saxon was seen as vulgar, substandard and inferior , and not worthy of mention- Much the same way as many colonialists and modern day Australians view Aboriginal Languages and place names.
In the 1200's still, there were streets in London and other English towns with signposts that read Gropec*** Lane. They were usually the areas where prostitution was practiced, and at the time to the Anglo-Saxon folk at least, the name was as inoffensive as say Grey Street St.Kilda, or Kings Cross Sydney.
A recent online poll of Britons asking "should the name Gropec*** Lane be reinstated to the Towns in which it originally existed in?" (which have long been replaced with such names as Grapevine Lane etc.,) came up with a result of 94% in favor. Funny though, in the past whenever I have typed S*** on here, Jaros has swooped and immediately erased it in favor of
oop: which of course is exactly the same thing anyway :lol:
https://metro.co.uk/2015/01/26/some...ing-back-gropecnt-lane-to-uk-streets-5036895/