Edited sentence: "A Bouquet of Lovers" thus predated the coining of the word "polyamory".All online version of the article were still in this state until at least several years after the creation of alt.In several places it referred to "poly-amorous" relationships, but consistently used "polygamy" in the noun form.It is clear, from the use of "polygamy", and hyphenation of "poly-amorous", that Morning Glory Zell did not consider "polyamory" to be a word until after alt.Note: The original version of "A Bouquet of Lovers", as published on the Internet, did not use the word "polyamory".Significantly, Jennifer Wesp at the time said the main reason she coined the new word, was to avoid having to use "polygamy" to describe polyamorous relationships, and indeed, that is what happened: People who began to use the word "polyamory", at the same time stopped using "polygamy" as a synonym.polyamory popularized it on the Internet