Jesse in the news, literally

[Joel S. Berson]

Jesse has another 15 minutes of fame - literally  :-)

"Harvard Crimson says writer lifted material"
by Sarah Schweitzer

"Harvard's student newspaper says that one of its writers lifted
material for her column on linguistics from a similar column posted a
year earlier to Slate, an online magazine.
      "The Harvard Crimson published an editor's note expressing
regret for failing reference [sic] the Slate column as a source for
quotes from 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Little Women' ...
      "... In [the Crimson column] Ilyinsky wrote about the morphed
use of the word 'literally.' ...
      "The Slate column, written by Jesse Sheidlower, an
editor-at-large at the Oxford English Dictionary and a freelancer for
Slate, ran Nov. 1, 2005 ..."

Boston Globe, October 27, 2006, B2/1-4.

Joel

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