From Voodoo to Vodou.

"The word voodoo, that is: the conveniently rhyming disyllable that first emerged in English in antebellum New Orleans and by the end of the nineteenth century had become almost obligatory in every British and North American report on Haiti – of which there were many, especially in the years following the invasion by U.S. marines in 1915. From the 1930s, anthropologists began to prefer vodun or vodoun, marking their distance from the sensationalist travelogues and feature films popular at the time. Voodoo proved more resilient elsewhere, but has slowly succumbed to less derogatory alternatives." Read the press release here: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00013443/00001/pdf