anti-vaxxer / anti-vaccer (double c pronunciation)

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Apr 16 00:49:45 UTC 2014


At 4/15/2014 04:22 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>And the word should be "anti-vacciner," anyway. ;-)

In the early modern era it was "anti-inoculator" (the "Couranteers"
in the Boston smallpox epidemic of 1721-22).

Joel

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