Homosexual homosexual

There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the word homosexual. OED's earliest evidence for homosexual is fromin the writing of John Addington Symonds, writer and advocate of sexual reform. Etymons: homo- comb. Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables.

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The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters. This key covers both British and U. English Simple Text Respell. It is similar in frequency to words like allegeambitiouscasualelectricityand imaging. More about OED's frequency bands. Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams version 2a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between and The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.

For sets of homographs distinct entries that share the same word-form, e. This homosexual homosexual result in inaccuracies. Modern frequency series are derived from a corpus of 20 homosexual homosexual words, covering the period from to the present. The corpus is mainly compiled from online news sources, and covers all major varieties of World English.

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What does the word homosexual mean? About 10 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency. How is the word homosexual pronounced? See pronunciation. Earliest known use s.