A WOKE council has told staff not to refer to married couples as husband and wife.
They are told “spouse” or “partner” will avoid offending anyone not identifying with a gender .
A 45-page booklet gives vocabulary tips to taxpayer-funded civil servants in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in South East London .
It is the latest barmy guide obtained by The Sun using Freedom of Information laws.
It includes a warning that traditional terms for a married couple are no longer acceptable and should be replaced with gender-neutral ones.
Staff running events are also warned against welcoming “ladies and gentlemen”.
Asking for a “Christian name” is also off limits.
The guide’s foreword states: “For some of us, communicating in a more inclusive way is about changing deeply embedded habits.”
It adds: “It’s OK to make mistakes. Remember that if you are really sorry and apologise, you cannot keep making the same ‘mistake’.”
Free Speech Union chief Toby Young fumed: “The problem with these inclusive language guides is they are designed to make anyone who doesn’t speak fluent woke-ish feel excluded.”
A Greenwich spokesman said: “Our inclusive language guide is advisory only.”
