"boy friend/ boyfriend" [WAS a new kind of "guy"]

[Mark Mandel]

Whoops, my error. I mistook the aside as part of the quotation, not your
comment on it. Color my face red.

m a m

On 6/17/07, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Mark, this is a kid's book. Written in _1911_.
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>   JL
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> Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> On 6/15/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> >
> > 1911 Winston Stokes, Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb_All Shakespeare's Tales_ (
> > N.Y.: Stokes) 302: Troilus and Cressida... Achilles lay idly in his
> tent,
> > listening to his boy friend Patroclus. [Not what you think, you filthy
> > rotter!]
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>
> That aside makes a good case for a common sexual-attraction use of "boy
> friend" in 1911.
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> m a m
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