There are no sweepers left in Norway.

There are no more sweepers in Norway That's great. But what was really wrong with the sweepingly beautiful title sweeper? Today, there are no sweepers in Norway. But there are many fire prevention workers, formerly known as sweepers. The title sweeper was in no way gender-discriminatory or offensive. So why on earth did anyone think that this had to be changed to something generic, woolly, undefinable and boringly incomprehensible? I knew what …