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Thread #168847 Message #4080121
Posted By: Jos
18-Nov-20 - 01:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: new words / usage
Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
The term 'gaslighting' in that sense comes from a play - Gaslight - from 1938, released as a film in the 1940s.
Does that count as 'new'?