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I suspect the article's original research. See the AFD for more, but I'll copypaste ,y basic argument from there:
The 3/4 references used only mention the claim in passing, while the remaining one (the 3rd one) states that it was used as such IN SOME CASES. Something the article doesn't mention
Most importantly, I am not a native speaker, but from what I know the first thing that comes to mind when u hear the phrase "He never married" is that the person in question has - you guessed it - never married.
Why does an article about this phrase exist is an open question, but what's even more interesting is why this article claims that this phrase was used - apparently solely - as a way to refer to closeted homosexuals - without refering to sources that make that claim.
Openlydialectic ( talk) 06:34, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
In My Fair Lady, by Lerner and Loewe, Henry Higgins makes the comment, "So here I am, Pickering—a confirmed old bachelor, and likely to remain so." This musical was first performed, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews in 1956, well pre-dating Private Eye. I certainly remember the phrase confirmed bachelor from my childhood in the 1950s and early 60s, though it was a term you were likelier to meet in British sources than hear used in New Zealand where I live. There is no suggestion in the story that Higgins was homosexual, though that doesn't preclude its being used that way elsewhere. Koro Neil ( talk) 03:47, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
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I suspect the article's original research. See the AFD for more, but I'll copypaste ,y basic argument from there:
The 3/4 references used only mention the claim in passing, while the remaining one (the 3rd one) states that it was used as such IN SOME CASES. Something the article doesn't mention
Most importantly, I am not a native speaker, but from what I know the first thing that comes to mind when u hear the phrase "He never married" is that the person in question has - you guessed it - never married.
Why does an article about this phrase exist is an open question, but what's even more interesting is why this article claims that this phrase was used - apparently solely - as a way to refer to closeted homosexuals - without refering to sources that make that claim.
Openlydialectic ( talk) 06:34, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
In My Fair Lady, by Lerner and Loewe, Henry Higgins makes the comment, "So here I am, Pickering—a confirmed old bachelor, and likely to remain so." This musical was first performed, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews in 1956, well pre-dating Private Eye. I certainly remember the phrase confirmed bachelor from my childhood in the 1950s and early 60s, though it was a term you were likelier to meet in British sources than hear used in New Zealand where I live. There is no suggestion in the story that Higgins was homosexual, though that doesn't preclude its being used that way elsewhere. Koro Neil ( talk) 03:47, 3 November 2018 (UTC)