You couldn't own slaves in London in 1845, and in any case the name derives from the "Master of the household", so if you want to be mad about it, you should call it sexist, not racist. Or you could just be chill, stretch the meaning a bit and say the couple together are the masters of the household. But, now I'm curious: Where do you draw the line? You don't like git master branches and master bedrooms, but what about other uses? You can have a master key, master record, master a skill, create a masterwork, be a master to an apprentice, join the toastmasters, be a master of ceremonies at a formal event, you can dress up for comic con as Master Yoda, Master Chief, or Dumbledore (the Headmaster of Hogwarts), you can be a Master Chief in the US Navy, be the dungeon master for a game of D&D, get a Masters' Degree and so on. Which of these things are in your opinion bad and should be renamed?

This is very much like asking why are you focused on fixing one bug at a time in your software when you can fix every reported bug simultaneously?

I don't know man, maybe it's because fixing this one completely inconsequential bug faces so much backlash from people like you for no particular reason other than "change bad"?

And well done with using an example from a book series where the only Asian character is named Cho Chang and where there are elves with long noses in charge of the "central bank". That really works in your favour, you totally owned me [pun intended] with that one!

Good job finding something to complain about in one of the 13 examples I listed. This unassailable refutation utterly destroys my whole argument :(

> A footman in his lordship's service stated he went into his master's bedroom [...]

isn't an example of the phrase "master bedroom".

I am also skeptical of "school house and master's bedroom". The main cottage has "four large bed rooms". Why would the "master bedroom", if it is meant to be read as it is today, be listed after the list of detached outbuildings?

Because you're thinking of homes in the modern term where one married couple owns one home and shares it with their children until they become adults and move out, instead of thinking of it as generational homes where 3-4 generations of the same family lived together.

So a master historically is not a 30-something year-old but his father in his 50s or 60s that actually owned the estate and wanted some privacy for him and his wife, hence a smaller, detached building away from the "main" building. The main building is where the master's sons and yet-unmarried daughters lived alongside the grandkids, hence needing more rooms, hence it being bigger than the building where the master lived.

I can't believe I have to explain something so basic.