With the two parts of the word coming from different ancient languages, one is reminded of C P Scott’s dictum: “Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it” – a dictum which is true of many such words, e.g. bigamy, genocide, sociopath (and sociologist), quadriplegia – and, er, bicycle.

Oh, and ‘homophobia’ is certainly an utter nonsense of a word, but not for the reasons stated.

The term ‘homosexual’ is not a word nor can it be. ‘Homo’ as in ‘Homo sapiens’ means ‘man’ NOT male. It is a generic term for the said species, including both male and female. Sexual……Ooo steady on matron…. means exactly what it says and can only result in conception. What they get up to cannot and therefore is not sexual, but buggery. And as for buggery or buggered it refers to an action that can best be described as ‘misuse resulting in damage’ eg. ‘aye up tha’s buggered it now’ which when translated is ‘now then, you have broken it’.

As for ‘homo phobia’ again a complete cock-up of the english language. As before ‘homo’ is man not male but the generic term ‘Man’. So how the hell can anyone, male or female be accused of hating the species ‘Man’ when we are that species.

End of story.

That sounds to me remarkably how things should work.
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End of story.

That sounds to me remarkably how things should work.