[Ads-l] Antedating of "Politically Incorrect"

[Shapiro, Fred]

politically incorrect (OED 1876)

[1862 Philadelphia Inquirer 11 Feb. 8/1 (Newspapers.com)  Calhoun was heard to mutter: — "There is no such thing as a nation ... Bishop Gadsden is logically and politically incorrect in talking about getting up a prayer for the Union."]

1866 Harrisburg Telegraph 3 Dec. 2/1 (Newspapers.com)  Every man who voted in favor of Congress was impressed with the conviction that the President was more than politically incorrect — that he was desperately and criminally wrong.

Fred Shapiro

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