Some words are used just to offend others so it's not the word itself, it's the intent. Yup. John, if your intent is to do research you don't need to use "the words" in the thread titles. You can certainly abbreviate, use dashes, etc.

(You could do that as a courtesy, even if it feels "hypocritical" to you. Courtesy and civility are often necessarily a bit hypocritical.)

As I've said above I like the fact that you're doing this research and Mudcat is a good, appropriate resource. But if you have a different (additional?) intent, I wish you wouldn't use Mudcat as the place to do it. ... Sigh.... Not that that ever stopped anybody before....