>>>* "used" is an expression people pre-owned to pre-own in their regular speech, but it's undergone a politically-correctional program.
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>>I couldn't understand what you mean with "but it's undergone a politically-correctional program"...
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>It's an American expression. First, nothing happens by itself. For an expression to become politically correct, it has to be incorrect first. Then, things don't become correct out of the blue - they need to be corrected. Since there's no national system for most of the things, they create programs, which apply to ALL participating facilities (service may not be available in your area; void where prohibited). So to make a non-PC expression become PC, there must be a politically-correctional program, where they fix those words.
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>At least I don't have a better explanation for the process. I've never seen it done. I only know that one day a word is OK, next day it's gone and replaced with a corrected version. I wonder what they do to them in there. Some serious brainwashing, I guess.

In most cases the change is for the good. There have been some ugly words which I am glad are no longer in common use. The ultimate may be the so called N-word, which has almost disappeared other than one black saying it to another. There was some hoo-ha here recently over a new edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," which in many estimations is the best American novel yet written. The N-word appears over 200 times. There was a backlash against the cleaned up edition. That was the way people spoke then. One interesting viewpoint was an op-ed in the New York Times by the brilliant short story writer and novelist Lorrie Moore, who is also an English teacher at the University of Wisconsin. (I bet that's a hard class to get into). She wrote that the word should stay in as written; we should not try to cover over the past. She also said it's better taught as college material rather than high school because high schoolers just aren't ready for it.

My high schooler has been hearing back about her college applications. She has been accepted by Marquette and the U of I. She seems to be hearing from them in inverse order of her interest. Madison, Brown, and Yale are still out there. I thought Yale in particular was a long shot but an alum interviewed her at a local library a couple of weeks ago. She wants to be an architect and Yale and Brown both supposedly have great programs. She has artistic talent as well as being good in math so I can see her doing that. Every college you ever heard of is all over her because she's a girl who is good in math. All right, SET BRAGGING OFF. We are all proud of our kids.