Jesse in the news, literally

[Chris F Waigl]

Joel S. Berson wrote:

> 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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Chris Waigl
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