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Did he really coin the word? I found a few results searching Google books in the 19th century. Sadly Google won't let me read them. Are books that old really co
by Houshalter 11y ago
Did he really coin the word? I found a few results searching Google books in the 19th century. Sadly Google won't let me read them. Are books that old really copyright protected?
- brudgers 11y agoWikipedia attributes meritocracy to Young. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Etymology
- brownbat 11y agoI found some journal articles that were published after Young, but the journal was founded in, say, 1890, so Google ngram viewer gets confused. Also, I found some entries with the word "mediocracy" or "mordacious" giving false positives on the search (bad OCR I guess).
- Houshalter 11y agoEDIT: The books aren't even from the 19th century. Google lists them as being that old, but they clearly are from the 1970s.