Language and Disability

[KateGladstone]

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[yourcamden]

The word 'cripple' comes from the Old English and was used by the Anglo-Saxons at a time before the wheelchair was ever invented. It only started to be used as an insult in the so called age of enlightenment in the 18th century when Britain led the world in the slave trade.