[Ads-l] Fantastic USA Today interview with Fred Shapiro

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Jul 24 15:46:08 UTC 2022


Very nice indeed, and great work by Fred. USA Today might want to spring
for a proofreader, though--note the reference to "former President Barrack
O'bama".

LH

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 11:34 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations to Fred Shapiro on his brilliant and engaging
> interview with James Brown of USA Today. Fred discusses the prevalence
> of misquotations, the invaluable New Yale Book of Quotations, the
> origin of the Pledge of Allegiance, and other topics.
>
> Website: USA TODAY
> Article: Wait, who said that? Your favorite quote probably isn't from
> the person you think
> Interviewer: James Brown
> Interviewee: Fred Shapiro
>
>
> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/07/24/who-said-that-your-favorite-quote-may-not-person-you-thought/10133252002/
>
> Garson
>
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