Thanks. This is the most 'intellectually correct' list that I subscribe to. If you want to know something, just say it happened in Virginia and you all come through in droves. I had hopes that it was the Marxist, which would allow me some room to complain about some inane political commentary. GOD BLESS VIRGINIA GOD BLESS AMERICA John Philip Adams Texas -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Neil Howlett Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 2:43 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Origin of the term 'politically correct' Not so Kathleen. In fact almost the opposite. OED, see below, says this originates in the USA, and was aleady used in it's present sesnse in the 1930's, and against Marx, not the party 1793 J. WILSON in U.S. Rep. (U.S. Supreme Court) 2 (1798) 462 Sentiments and expressions of this inaccurate kind prevail in our..language... 'The United States', instead of the 'People of the United States', is the toast given. This is not *politically correct. 1875 N.Y. Times 19 Dec. 2 The other ninety odd thousand charges are all true, and politically correct. 1934 J. STRACHEY Lit. & Dialectical Materialism 47 We are sometimes a little apt to pretend, to wish, to suggest that such writers [sc. Marxists] are necessarily better writers, because they are more politically correct, than are our fellow travelers. 1936 H. V. MORTON In Steps of St. Paul vi. 211 'Galatians', a term that was politically correct, embraced everyone under Roman rule.