Reuters bans the use of such emotive terms as terrorist and freedom fighter in its news reports. Broadcasters say they now think twice before using the word disaster to describe such commonplace events as trains being delayed for a couple of hours.
Sportswriters question whether it's still appropriate to call a missed goal a tragedy or refer to two teams going to battle against each other. And Oxford professor Jean Aitchison wonders whether the very word war has lost its meaning through overuse, speculating that "we are going to have to think up a new word."
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