"Discrimination United States Terminology." . . "Diskriminierung." . . "English language Etymology." . . "English language Etymology" . "Electronic books." . . "Englisch." . . "LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics Etymology." . . "Etymologie." . . . . . . . . . . . . "Livres électroniques" . . "Terminology"@en . "Terminology" . . . . . . "Cardinal men and scarlet women a colorful etymology of words that discriminate"@en . "Cardinal men and scarlet women a colorful etymology of words that discriminate" . . . . . . . "Terms and phrases" . "Terms and phrases"@en . . . . . . "\"Words such as cardinal and scarlet can describe the same color but they take on markedly different meanings when we use them to consider the worth of a cardinal man or a scarlet woman. The comparison seems to conjure significantly more prejudice when we consider that a cardinal man is revered as righteous while a scarlet woman is reviled as wicked, particularly in terms of her sexual activity. In a similar way, by contrasting other pairs of words, we can see how they too invite discriminatory connotations in terms of what we value: Christian and pagan, crusade and jihad, highbrow and lowbrow, wizard and witch, right and left, white and black. Keessen presents this playful yet scholarly study by way of a series of informal essays, arranged by chapter and topic, and in a storytellers lexicon tells us how certain notions developed.\"--Amazon." . . . . . . . "Cardinal men and scarlet women : a colorful etymology of words that discriminate" . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . "United States" . . "Vorurteil." . . "LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics General." . . "Phraseologie." . . "Discrimination" . . "English language" . . "English language Terms and phrases." . .