“bad” “Black
is beautiful”
“boy” “death
row”
“honkey” “I have
a dream”
“nigger” “separate
but equal” (schools)
“soul food” 1619
1863 1968
Abraham Lincoln Alex Haley
Alice Walker Angela
Davies
bigotry Billie
Holiday
Bill Cosby Black
Power
Black Panthers Black Muslims
Blacks Booker
T. Washington
break dancing bussing
Cassius Clay Civil
Rights
“Colored” crime
desegregation Diana Ross
Eddie Murphy Emancipation
Proclamation
entertainment George
Washington Carver
ghetto gospel
music
Harlem Harriet
Tubman
Islam integration
jazz Jesse
Jackson
Ku Klux Klan Kwanzaa
Louis Armstrong Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Michael Jackson
Michael Jordan Mohammed
Ali
Montgomery, Alabama Motown
music NAACP
Nat King Cole Natalie Cole
Negroes Nobel
Peace prize winner
prejudice racism
rapping rock
‘n roll
Roots Sammy Davis Jr.
segregation Selma,
Alabama
slavery Southern
Baptists
spirituals sports
Stevie Wonder Tina Turner
“Uncle Tom” Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“Underground Railroad” Whoopie Goldberg
This list is a limited sampling of words and phrases
you may come across when reading, writing or discussing matters concerning
African-Americans. Teachers and students should pay special attention to
colloquial/slang expressions and inform students of the use and abuse of such
words. I would appreciate any comments
from African-Americans as to the use or misuse of any of these words.
American Indian Movement
(AIM) Apache
Blackfeet bison
buffalo Bureau
of Indian Affairs (BIA)
calumet Cherokee
canoe Cheyenne
cradleboards Dakota
(Sioux)
farmers Geronimo
General George Custer Ghost Dance
hogan herders
Hopi horse
Inuit Iroquois
Confederacy/Nation
Kwakiutl lacrosse
Little Big Horn longhouse
medicine man moccasins
Mohawks Mohicans
Navajo nomadic
papoose potlatch
Pueblo Indians reservation
Seminole shaman
Taos tepee
tomahawk totem
pole
Trail of Tears wampum
whaling Wounded
Knee
Wovoka
* This list is a limited sampling of words and phrases you may come across
when reading, writing or discussing matters concerning Native Americans. I
would appreciate any comments from Native Americans as to the use or misuse of
any of these words.
1607 Jews
1849 jobs
1862 Koreans
adapt language
Afro-Americans? Los Angeles
alien melting
pot
Americanization Mexicans
Asians Midwest
assimilation immigration
bilingual education Minnesota
border Native
Americans?
California Nativists
cheap labor New
York
Chinese Norwegians
citizenship persecution
crime Poles
Cubans politics
cultural diversity prejudice
discrimination «push»
and «pull»
education quotas
Ellis Island race
emigration railroad
equal rights refugee
Europe religion
family residence
permit
food salad
bowl
foreign school
freedom South
Americans
Germans Statue
of Liberty
ghetto stereotype
gold «Sun
Belt»
green card traditions
Haitians visa
Hispanic WASP
Homestead Act waves
housing West
(frontier)
illegal “wetback”
immigration When?
integration Where?
Irish Who?
Italians Why?
Jamestown work permit
* This list is a limited sampling of words and phrases you may come across
when reading, writing or discussing matters concerning US immigration,
emigration and migration. I would appreciate any comments as to the use or
misuse of any of these words.
Cfc change
Chernoby climate
coal conservation
consume convert
dams dangerous
deforestation dump
ecology efficient
emission endanger
energy environment
filters fossil
fuel
fumes gas
gasoline geothermal
greenhouse effect hazardous
hydroelectric inexpensive
nuclear oil
ozone layer pesticide
poisonous pollute
recycle regulation
renewable smog
solar tidal
toxic turbine
uranium wind
windmill
* This list is a limited sampling of words and phrases you may come across
when reading, writing or discussing matters concerning ecology or the
environment.
Academic algebra
Numbers baseball
basketball biology
boarding books
campus caning
Chinese
coeducation
college
university
compulsory corporal
punishmewnt
counselor
curriculum
degree
diploma
discipline
dormitory
drugs
Dutch
education
electives
examinations extracurricular
fail football
French geography
German
gifted
grades
graduate
grammar gym
headmaster
highschool
history
homework
illiterate
Italian
learn
lessons
library
loan
locker
marks
math
mathematics
maths
Norwegian
obligatory
parochial
pass
philosophy
physics
principal
psychology pupil
quiz
religion
Russian
scholarship
school
soccer
sociology
Spanish
sports student
subjects swimming
teacher test
tuition tutor
undergraduate uniform
university
* This list is a limited sampling of words and phrases
you may come across when reading, writing or discussing matters concerning
schools, especially American schools.
BRITISH ENGLISH AMERICAN ENGLISH
accelerator gas pedal
aerial antenna
bodyshell chassis
bonnet hood
boot trunk
dipped lights lowbeam
lights
dynamo generator
estate car station wagon
gear stick gear shift
glove box glove compartment
handbrake emergency brake
indicator
blinker, turn signal
main lights highbeams
or brights
mileometer odometer
mudguard mudflap
pedal brake foot brake
petrol cap gas cap
rear light tail
light
reversing light backup
light
saloon sedan
sidelight parking
light
silencer muffle
sparking plug sparkplug
tyre tire
windscreen windshield
windscreen washer windshield washer
windscreen wipers windshield
wipers
wing fender
wing
mirror side mirror
anvil
vernier calliper
inside calliper
chisel
outside calliper
clamp
drill
file
hacksaw
hammer
handsaw
micrometer
pliers
protractor
punch
reamer
try-square
ripsaw
ruler
saw
screwdriver
spanner
vice
wrench
Work/Employment Wordlist*
advertisement
application
apply
appointment
benefit
boring
boss
business
career
compensation
competition
computer
corporation
curriculum
depression
disability
discrimination
dole
earn
education
efficiency
employee
employer
employment
equal
executive
expenses
experience
factory
fire
government
health
hire
hobby
income
interests
interview
leave
lifestyle
manager
marital
maternity
multinational
opportunity
paternity
paycheck
pension
personnel
position
post
profession
profit
promotion
qualifications
quit
recession
recommendation
redundant
reference
resume
retirement
retraining
salary
semiskilled
skill
skilled
staff
status
strike
surname
talent
taxes
tedious
tips
unemployed
union
unskilled
vacancy
wages
welfare
work
worker
* This list is a limited sampling of words and phrases you may come across
when reading, writing or discussing matters concerning work, employment, job
interviews and job applications.