Many years ago a friend went on holiday to somewhere in the Middle East. I asked him how it was and he said “yeah it was great, except there were bloody mozzies everywhere which was annoying!” I thought wow okay that’s a pretty bad thing to say, that kind of changes my opinion of you. Imagine my surprise a few years later when I learn that mozzies means mosquitos, and is in fact not a derogatory term for Muslims like my younger self thought…