From: Steve Shapiro (sgshiya@redshift.com)
Date: 08/26/02-02:13:34 AM Z
Good research, Judy. The old 'origin unknown.' Now, if we can only find
the origin of prejudice itself.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 10:45 PM
Subject: derivation of faggot according to Websters
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Steve Shapiro wrote:
>
> > Let me check back with Prof. Jacqueline Tunberg, Dean of the English
Dept.
> > at Cal State San Diego . . . oops, it's now UC San Diego and . . . she's
> > dead. Can't argue with the living, either.
> >
> > Love ya' Judy.
>
> Thank you, Steve.
>
> My 1966 Webster's unabridged has a couple of paragraphs on the word fag,
> as a term for cigarette, for tiredness and as "an English public school
> boy who acts as servant to another boy in a higher form." That old
> English custom may be familiar to those who have read novels or memoirs of
> English boarding school ("public school") life.
>
> The next entry, "fag or faggot" is given as "(origin unknown," slang for
> homosexual."
>
> J.
>
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