Bi-Sexual (1912); FUGS & Mongolian

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> BI-SEXUAL--OED has 1914, and Fred Shapiro posted a citation from 1912.
> BI-SEXUAL MAN, OR: EVOLUTION OF THE SEXES (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, 1912)
> by Francis Isabel Wymore and Francis H. Buzzacott (see the OCLC WorldCat
> database) is definitely worth looking at for "bi-sexual."  "Bi-Sexual
> Man" is also the title of an essay in the book OUR PLANET, ITS PAST &
> FUTURE, OR LECTURES ON GEOLOGY (1870), also seen on WorldCat, although I
> don't know if this book on geology will be relevant.

These citations are OED sense 1, for which the OED has citations going
back to 1824.  My concern was OED sense 2, which I referred to as the
"modern sense" of the word.

Fred Shapiro


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