Alec
Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>
> Alec Ramsdell wrote:
> >
> > Marta Russell wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not sure about Harding (do you have a
> source)
> >
> > One of Harding's slogans called for a "Return to
> > Normalcy"--he coined the word. From Harding's
> > Inaugural Address, 3/4/21:
> >
>
> OED under Normal,
>
> Hence 'normalcy chiefly U.S. =NORMALITY; 'normalist
>
> 1857 Davies & Peck _Math Dict._ 386 If we denote the
> coordinates of the
> point of contact, and normalcy, by x" and y".
>
> 1893 _Nation_ 30 July 47/1 Believers ...in the
> mathematical normalcy of
> the female mind.
>
> 1920 W.G. Harding in F.L. Allen _Only Yesterday_
> (1931) ii. 41 America's
> present need is not heroics but healing; not
> nostrums but normalcy; not
> revolution but restoration
>
> 1929 G.N. Clark in _S.P.E. Tract_ xxxiii. 417 "If .
> . .'normalcy' is
> ever to become an accepted word it will presumably
> be because the late
> President Harding did not know any better.
> =====
>
> Harding may have coined it, not knowing it already
> existed, or might
> have known the mathematical usage and adopted it.
>
> Carrol
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