[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Ageism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

This is only a slight antedating of "ageism," but I believe it is the coinage of the term and thus worth adding to OED.

Fred Shapiro


ageism (OED 1969 March)

1969 Robert N. Butler in Gerontologist Winter  We shall soon have to consider ... a form of bigotry we now tend to overlook: age discrimination or age-ism, prejudice by one age group toward other age groups.


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