[Ads-l] Antedating of "Speciesism" (Corrected Email)

[Peter Reitan]

Isn't it a form of specieism to assume a human came up with the concept first?
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Fred Shapiro wrote:
> Terrific find, Garson.  Did you actually search for "specie-ism"
> or did that come up when you searched for "speciesism" or
> for "species-ism"?

Thanks, Fred. I noticed that you posted a =E2=80=9CCorrected Email=E2=80=9D=
 that led
me to think of misspellings of =E2=80=9Cspeciesism=E2=80=9D. I knew that yo=
u would
have performed a thorough job searching for the standard spelling. So
I deliberately searched for a misspelling. Also, I thought the early
version might be hyphenated. So I searched for =E2=80=9Cspecieism=E2=80=9D =
and
=E2=80=9Cspecie-ism=E2=80=9D.

There were too many false matches in newspapers.com, so I restricted
the range to 1960-1980. This allowed easy manual review.

Garson

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