Mundanes and Normals
May. 15th, 2007 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muurankerA couple of nights ago on Balderdash and Piffle (http://www.oed.com/bbcwords/) , some survivors of the mental health service were arguing that a new definition of 'normal' should be included in the OED. It was rejected, but I thought it should have been accepted, because they were describing a new usage, which paralleled the recent use of 'mundane'.
Looking up 'mundane', I find the OED has the earliest entry as
1959 R. ENEY Fancyclopedia II 48 - but here 'mundane' means 'a mundane work of fiction', rather than 'a mundane person'.
The earliest for 'mundane [person]' they have is 1986. Can we do better? Scour those early 1980s ReadMes for references!
Looking up 'mundane', I find the OED has the earliest entry as
1959 R. ENEY Fancyclopedia II 48 - but here 'mundane' means 'a mundane work of fiction', rather than 'a mundane person'.
The earliest for 'mundane [person]' they have is 1986. Can we do better? Scour those early 1980s ReadMes for references!
