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 ::: But you haven't proved that modern scholars think that the name ""Norman Conquest"" meant something different. ""Aethelred the Unready"" isn't a good example ... because every biography written recently discusses the fact that the common ""nickname"" is not correct, that it really meant ""unrede"" which meant ""ill-counseled"". No such discussions take place about ""Norman Conquest"" in modern sources. So we can cover the fallacy of Aethelred's nickname but without modern secondary sources we cannot discuss ""Norman Conquest"" in the same way. The sources just do not exist. It might be interesting in an history of the word conquest - but it has no bearing on this article or it's subject matter.  -  "