Wednesday, September 24, 2014

When famous person did boycott come from?

When famous person did boycott come from?
It came from Capt. Charles C. Boycott (1832 - 1897), who was a British land agent ostracised by his local community in Ireland as part of a campaign for agricultural tenants' rights (1880). The term went into the English language: to boycott, which means to ostracise (to exclude, leave out).

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