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This is somewhat related to the concept of the "euphemism treadmill":

the matter-of-fact term of today becomes the pejorative of tomorrow so a new term is invented to avoid the negative connotation of the original term. Then eventually the new term becomes a pejorative and the cycle continues.

It has been suggested - although I am unsure if there is strong evidence - that the word "bear" is a euphemism along these lines, meaning "brown one" for the since-forgotten original name for the animal, as it was allegedly believed to be either too frightful to say aloud, or would summon a bear.

While it's conceivable (consider phrases such as "speak of the devil and he shall appear" and similar phrases in other languages), I would also say the etymology of names for things are often at the same level as "brown one":

  • Horse, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-, “to run”
  • Planet, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs), “wanderer”
  • Lots of Latin-derived words, companion (bread together), conspire (breathe together), transgression (step across), etc.
  • Hamburger the food named after the city of Hamburg, where "burg" means "castle", because it had a castle
  • My forename means "son of the right/south" or "son of days", my family name means "wheat field/clearing" (in a different language); where "wheat" itself comes from Proto-Germanic, from *hwītaz (“white”) and the "ley" part from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“clearing”), derived from *lewk- (“bright”), and *lewk-  also gives all these derived terms even just in English:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_derive...

It's not suggested, the historic use of noa words is a fact.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noa-name

I mean suggested in the sense that this specific example cannot be evidenced, as there aren't any primary sources from that time we can refer to.

I found out recently that "goof" is extremely offensive in some circles. Which is insane to me because I've always used it specifically because it's clearly in jest and not meant to be offensive. I can't win.

Now I'm curious. To whom is goof offensive? And is it newly-acquired offense or does it have old roots?

Oh! Cape of Good Hope was renamed that way when portuguese mariners discovered they could go around the areas more susceptible to "freak waves".

This is a problem even today, some have said it is due to hotter currents coming from the Indian ocean meeting the cold Atlantic. But the judge is still out on that one.

Good documentary on rogue waves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfNc_6EjbMU