[heeton]

I'd wager good money that if you did a rapid-fire word association test on a spread of non-us english speakers, over half would say "slave" after master.

[marliechiller]

Id wager we could do the same with the word "quarter". Whats your point exactly?

[heeton]

> The thing is, most non-Americans dont connect master with slavery at all

[marliechiller]

Exactly... theyd be associating it with quartermaster rather than slavemaster...