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Jan/Feb 2011
Anonymous was a woman
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's...
Nov/Dec 2013
Legal prose and verborrhea
Perhaps the greatest iconoclast in the history of legal education was Yale Law School professor Fred Rodell ’31LLB. Rodell had many critical...
Jan/Feb 2008
You can quote them
In the Yale Book of Quotations, I sought to bring a new kind of research to the quotations field by questioning all received wisdom about the...
Mar/Apr 2008
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In quotation research, discovery is a continuing process and a collaborative one. Every week brings breakthroughs from my own investigations and...
Jul/Aug 2008
Who wrote the Serenity Prayer?
At the beginning of this millennium, the editors of the World Almanac selected what they thought to be "the most memorable quotes by Americans in...
Sep/Oct 2008
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There are often three stages of knowledge about a famous quotation. The first level is the commonly accepted popular attribution. The second level...
Nov/Dec 2008
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In this column and the next, I turn from quotations per se to the coining of words. Yale neologists have made huge contributions to our vocabulary...
Mar/Apr 2009
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In a world in which economics has become a central discipline and the state of the economy a central concern, our public discourse seems more and...
Sep/Oct 2009
Who really wrote “Boola Boola”?
The authorship of Yale's iconic fight song “Boola Boola” has traditionally been ascribed to Allan M. Hirsh, Class of 1901. In October...
Nov/Dec 2009
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In a previous column, I wrote: “Etymology is the -ology that gets no respect.” Research into early usages of words and phrases can...
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