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

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Paranomasia can make a view deja." --Modern Proverb

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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And Patroclus at his death was principally regretful that he would have to leave Achilles behind.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:36:35 -0700
>From: Jonathan Lighter
>Subject: Re: "boy friend/ boyfriend" [WAS a new kind of "guy"]
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>Mark, this is a kid's book. Written in _1911_.
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> JL
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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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