autonym

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/8/2009 12:21 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>AHD 4th edn
>http://www.bartleby.com/61/87/A0538750.html
>A name by which a people or social group refers to itself.

Thanks.  This definition seems useful -- e.g., for talking about how
"people of color" refer, and used to refer, to themselves.

Joel

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