went thru a period a while back at work in which higher up insisted we call them "the straits" instead of "turkish straits"
sarah jeongaround brexit, when americans were struggling with the difference between britain / uk / british isles, someone on twitter suggested to me (somewhat tongue in cheek) that "the british isles" is unacceptable and that the politically correct term is "these isles"; or "those isles" if you're american