now: avoidance of "novel"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Larry: A book called _The Manny_ about *male nannies*, not "novel"? Please.
(Get ready for Word-of-the-Year madness: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19250247/site/newsweek/ ).

Doug: Huh? (We've established that "novel" means "book-length prose narrative of fact or fiction" in Inglish.)

JL

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If not that, then what _was_ the intended distinction between fiction and
novel? Or were they just trying to express novel in a _real unique_ way?
(the other) doug

I trust that you are not suggesting that it was plagiarized, hence there was
nothing "novel" about it?
  L. Urdang
  Old Lyme

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_Fox & Friends_ this a.m. interviewed Holly Peterson, author of a novel
about male nannies titled _The Manny_.

The word "novel" was avoided, being replaced by "fictional book" and
"fiction book."

Had to happen, right?

JL

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