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Chaucer Invented the Word
Tweet
, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
October 29, 2012
On the Shelf
Geoffrey Chaucer “provides our earliest ex. of twitter, verb: of a bird: to utter a succession of light tremulous notes; to chirp continuously.” See this, and his other contributions to language, on this
handy-dandy word cloud
.
Garcia Marquez takes Mexico City! (He already lives there, but the city is
celebrating fifty years
of calling Gabo a son with some forty thousand posters.)
This flowchart
outlines how to publish a book (and makes it look so easy and colorful!).
William Faulkner and Woody Allen are
in a feud
. Okay, it’s actually the Faulkner Estate and Sony Pictures, which used a Faulkner quote in
Midnight in Paris
.
Happy birthday,
American Antiquarian Society
.
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