'Homosexualism' vs. 'homosexuality', Russian gay linguistics

Wed Oct 25 17:58:05 UTC 2006

On Oct 25, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>
>> so far as i can see, the OED has entries for neither "homosexualism"
>> nor "homosexualist".  rather a lot of google webhits on
>> "homosexualism", though, many of them recent.
>
> "Homosexualist" is in OED with a 1931 first use.  I believe I have
> antedated this, though.

ah, i see it now.  in the "homosexual" entry.

1931 strikes me as awfully late.  but then these impressions of mine
have been wrong before.

arnold

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