Now, for your moment of truth:

Everybody knows this one:

In Italian ghet or gheto means waste or slag. Besides housing the marginalised community, this was the area where slag that was left over from the processing of iron ore was stored.

This one’s not as innocent as you thought:

The word bugger refers to Bulgarians and it was later used by the Catholic church to describe people of the East Orthodox Church who were heretics, and homosexuality naturally became a part of the connotation.

Criminal? Yes. But racist?

Legend has it that the Carib people were chilling on their sunny island minding their own cultural business when some westerner came in and frowned and gave them a bad rep. If you ask me, it was uncalled for.

An insult of the most aristocratic order:

This was coined from the arrogance of the ancient civilisations – Greek, Roman, Christian – and their supremist attitude to foreign cultures.

Let’s play Chinese whispers, you said. Just a game, you said.

Doesn’t get more straightforward than that.

This is a cakewalk, it’s easy as pie… Err not.

The word has an amusing history from an era of slavery in America. The slaves dressed up in fine clothes and took on the airs of aristocracy, the couple to perform best would win a cake.

No, not the cute folk who rub noses in affection!

Well, it’s true. Turns out we’re guilty of reducing their varied culture and rich history to a single trivial trait. There’s a word for them – it’s Inuit.

*glass shatters*

The origin lies in ‘hep hep’ which was the herding cry of shepherds in Germany. Which then took an anti-Semitic tone around the time of the Holocaust.

This is starting to get absurd:

The phrase is a reducted version of ‘I can’t do it’ which dates back to the mid-19th and early 20-th century when western attitudes to the Chinese were expressly racist.

This one’s for every Mother Superior at every convent school ever:

The word was first documented in police reports from 1898 against the Irish immigrant family living in London infamous for their drinking songs, violent tendencies, and well, all round hooliganism.

You didn’t know it was a word, did you?

The obvious conclusion is that disagreements over business deals might have encouraged people to think of them as cheaters.

I feel like someone’s making a moron out of me:

Turns out the word was adopted by the American Association for the Study of the Feeble-Minded (?) in 1910. It is now avoided due to its widespread use describing a stupid person. Damn right!

Fret not, we’re nearly at the end:

Dates back to the 4th and 5th century, when the violence and destruction they caused gave new meaning to the word. The vandals got unlucky, it could have very well been the Mongols or the Mughals.

I ain’t buying this no more:

Though dated, this word was used medically to describe the physical and mental effects of a thyroid deficiency.

We’re done. It’s over. And without judgement I present you the last of the lot:

The word is offensive. Don’t use it. Or use it. Nobody cares.