Talking About People: A Guide to Fair and Accurate Language

In this reference guide, Rosalie Maggio offers thousands of alternatives for outdated, stereotypical and damaging language. This substantially updated and expanded version of Maggio’s earlier work, The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage , also covers numerous words and phrases that were not even part of our language as little as five years ago. This reference guide should merit a place next to the dictionary and thesaurus of all who are sensitive to the use of fair and accurate language, helping them make an informed judgement when choosing words to describe people in terms of their age, sex, employment, economic status, religion, lifestyle, ethnic background or disability.