expatriate or American-Born Confused Desi community. Jew by the Jewish people (the word used to be seen as pejorative in English). That process is still not complete in some Slavic languages, where the word Zhyd can still be seen as pejorative. Kugel, playful South African English slang for a materialistic young woman, originally was a derogatory term used by the elder generation of South African Jews for a young Jewish woman who forsook traditional Jewish dress values for those of the ostentatiously wealthy and became overly materialistic and overgroomed. The term was then reclaimed by those women. Peckerwood, originally black slang in the Southern United States for poor whites, reclaimed by white prison gangs Smoggie, originally a derogatory term for people from the North East England town of Middlesbrough, in reference to the town's notorious industrial pollution, now commonly used in self-identification. White trash, a classist slur referring to poor white people, reappropriated by some in the Southern states of the United States of America as a cultural symbol and badge of pride - however this reappropriation has not been as evident in mainstream British English syntax where it is used in a more condescending or sarcastic manner. Wog by Australians of Greek, Arab or Turkish descent. Disability cripple, crip, gimp by people with disabilities. mad by people with mental disorders Art movements Impressionists In 1874 during their first independent art show, critic Louis Leroy penned a hostile review of the show in Le Charivari newspaper under the title "The Exhibition of the Impression-ists". In particular he used the painting Impression, soleil levant by Claude Monet to ridicule the painters for their lack of seriousness preferring to paint "fleeting impressions of the moment" rather than allegorical or ultra-realist themes. Stuckism is an international art movement founded in 1999; its members produce figurative art. Tracey Emin, one of the Young British Artists known for their conceptual art, accused her then-boyfriend of lack of imagination or reach, of being "stuck". He took on the term. Feminism Words some feminist activists have argued should be reclaimed include: bitch cunt slut lady See also Détournement, a similar strategy used for images. Dysphemism treadmill, the process by which offensive terms can become acceptable without deliberate intervention. Gaysper, reappropriated LGBT symbol References Sociolinguistics Historical linguistics Stereotypes Semantics Political terminology Linguistic controversies