List of historical common names
This is an incomplete list of historical common names. Names may have been changed because they were considered pejorative.
Places
[edit]Istanbul
[edit]- Constantinople
Ho Chi Minh City
[edit]- Saigon - pre-1976
Mumbai
[edit]- Bombay - pre-1995[1]
Diseases and disabilities
[edit]Down syndrome
[edit]- Mongolism
Physically disabled
[edit]- Crippled
- Handicapped
Tuberculosis
[edit]- Consumption - until 2000s
- Tuberculosis
Peoples
[edit]Of African descent
[edit]- Nigger
- Negro
- Coloured
- Black - still in use
- African-American - in the United States
Indigenous peoples of North America
[edit]- Indian - pre-1960s
- Native American - since 1960s
- Indigenous - 1980s
- First Nations
Romani people
[edit]Organizations
[edit]The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
[edit]- Church of Christ - 1830 to 1834
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - 1834 onward
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beam, Christopher (12 July 2006). "How Bombay became Mumbai". Slate.