Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

by Amanda Montell

(For example, did you know the word lesbian was not added to the Oxford English Dictionary until 1976? Incredibly, when it finally did get an entry, the following treasure from writer Cecil Day-Lewis was included as the example sentence: “I shall never write real poetry. Women never do, unless they’re invalids, or Lesbians, or something.”)