For clarity's sake, yes, I am saying that historical definition for master branch is not valid. Click on the "Electronics" button. That is the valid one. You

For clarity's sake, yes, I am saying that historical definition for master branch is not valid. Click on the "Electronics" button. That is the valid one. You can see in the comments section here where this is explicitly called out. Why is the historical one not valid? Because context matters. We are not talking about the word master itself, we are talking about it in a context. Master branch was not defined using the historical definition. In our case here, it refers to the electronics definition. The English language is completely full of words where meanings have changed and are different depending on the context. Using your logic, we would not only be renaming master branch, but also removing all other contexts, like 'mastery' of a discipline, or the record industry's 'master copy', or even terms like 'maestro' in music. If you take something out of context, it can be offensive to someone--no doubt, but that is why context matters. Going thru the English language to find every word that used to mean one thing we don't like and then removing all modern usages which don't even mean the same thing in a different context is mindbogglingly silly, costly, and frankly, puritanical.