[Ads-l] Coinage of "Birth Control"

[Shapiro, Fred]

I should explain that Sanger's use of this term was in 1914.

Fred


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Subject: Coinage of "Birth Control"

The term "birth control" has long been said to have been coined by Margaret Sanger.  The latest release of the OED, however, has a 1906 citation for the term.

Fred Shapiro

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