Talk:Groupuscule

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Is this a real term? It sounds invented to me... KJ

Doing a google search, I would say it is a word, but not a very common one in English. Google gives 5,960 hits, but only 339 of them from English pages, the rest being French. Still, that's enough to show that there are at least some people actually using the word (in English). Andre Engels 11:39 Nov 8, 2002 (UTC)

I've seen it used by Bernard Levin in an article about the Workers Revolutionary Party and the tendency of extreme leftist groups to fragment on ever finer (and incomprehensible to outsiders) points of doctrine... it's even made it into the OED, with citations going back to 1968:

> groupuscule n.

> A small political group, esp. a radical or extremist splinter group. Freq. contemptuous.

Malcolm Farmer 11:40 Nov 8, 2002 (UTC)

But is it encyclopedic? As it stands, I think this article belongs in wiktionary.