place name

Officials have approved the removal of the derogatory term “squaw” from more than 30 geographic features and place names on California lands, according to an announcement Friday by the state Natural Resources Agency.

The forest was partitioned into different areas and given biblical place names, such as Judea, Bethlehem and Nazareth.

If a particular place name sounds hilarious to English speakers, you can bet local people are tired of having that pointed out by giggling visitors.

Words such as "sultan" and "shrine" are disappearing from place names - to be replaced with terms such as "harmony" and "happiness", according to the research, which is based on China's own published data.

That same year, the California Legislature passed a measure that required the term be stripped from place names and geographic landmarks statewide by 2025.