[HPFGU-OTChatter] Dictioanries (was Re: Slash and homosexuality)

[Kathryn Cawte]

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From: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Date: 15 January 2003 23:28:35
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Slash and homosexuality


Well ... my 1982 Concise OED clearly defines homosexual as meaning a 
person "who is sexually attracted only by persons of his or her own 
sex". So I'd say Queer-as-John was wrong. Unless usage has dictated a 
change since then, which of course is always possible. Who's got a 
recent dictionary?

Still as somebody once said, "Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for 
nothing could upset me today!"

ER

Does anyone know a good online free dictionary? I needed a definition to use
in one of my essays last week and found nothing helpful, but I fully admit I
d left it to the last minute wand was fairly tired when I was searching.
(Essay title - what s the essence of coutliness? definition of courtliness
according to most dictionaries - behaviour suitable to a court, or worse
just listed as the noun derived from courtly.)

K