RE: [xmca] Where anecdote got its bad rep

["Peter Smagorinsky" <smago@uga.edu>]

See also

http://www.phrases.org.uk/a-phrase-a-week/

http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscribe.html


-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
Behalf Of Mike Cole
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:33 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: [xmca] Where anecdote got its bad rep

There is this great deal where Mirriam Webster sends you the word of the
day. Lots of
interesting stuff there. This one tell us where anecdote got is bad rep
from.

easy to join and free.

The BIg disappoint for me was to find out that the etymology of the word
etymology is from a
Greek word meaning, in essence, "the one right meaning"!!

Darn!!

mike
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Date: Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:58 AM
Subject: anecdote: M-W's Word of the Day
To: lchcmike@gmail.com



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The Word of the Day for February 10 is:

anecdote   \AN-ik-doht\   noun
    : a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical
incident

Example sentence:
    Pastor Andrews often included light-hearted anecdotes from his personal
experience in his Sunday sermons.

Did you know?
    The Byzantine official Procopius wrote three historical works in Greek.
In the first two, he dealt with wars and public works projects, but the
third was something of a departure from this kind of history. Referred to as
"Anekdota," from the Greek "a-" meaning "not," and "ekdidonai," meaning "to
publish," it contained bitter attacks on the emperor Justinian, his wife,
and other notables of contemporary Constantinople. Understandably, it was
not published until after its writer's death. English speakers originally
used an anglicized version of the book's name for similar secret or
unpublished histories or biographies, and by the 17th century, the meaning
of "anecdote" had been broadened to cover any interesting or amusing
personal tale.





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