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To: Does so
Perhaps that is because you are not spelling it correctly:

The word pederasty appears in every dictionary I own.

20 posted on 04/11/2018 6:30:33 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: WayneS
The word pederasty appears in every dictionary I own.

Yup. I left out a syllable (here).

My point was really that modern dictionaries seem to have phased out the word—perhaps under pressure from colleges. My old dictionaries have it: paperbacks less so.

28 posted on 04/15/2018 5:38:26 AM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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