Homophobia
I'm not an English scholar, but I do take an interest in how we use our amazingly rich language in both the vernacular and in a more refined sense. I remember back in my youth when an very intelligent and very wise pipe-smoking manager of mine you to expound that one needed to be "pacific" when dealing with manufacturing planning. Of course he meant "specific", back then it used to distract me and make me snigger, now it gets on my nerves. Another idiomatic linguistic errors that I come across too frequently, especially in my ancestral area of the South East is, "She won't do nothing!" meaning that the person in question is lazy and won't do anything! Ah, the curse of the double-negative in both Cockney and Kentish dialect! I wrote some time ago about thoughts on the heinous use of "black" when referring to someone with African or Afro-Caribbean ancestry which was a hangover from less honourable days in the history of the West. ...