15: lesbian Dec 23, 2014

Today's word, as promised, is the story of the island of Lesbos. Sappho was a Greek poet who lived on the island of Lesbos. For anyone not familiar with Sappho, she is known to be very dramatic, in particular, about love. More importantly, for today's word anyway, her poetry expressed affection for women. And that is how we today get the word lesbian.