mind-shower
v.— «Apparently, it is polically incorrect to say “Brain Storm,” as it is offensive to epileptic students (And this is actually 100% true, and what they are now telling new student teachers!) So what do they have to call it instead? “Mind Shower.”» —“The worst thing ever?” by undividual in Wales deviantART Jan. 3, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange assignment: find a monarch caterpillar. The result? A memorable lesson in the miracle of metamorphosis...