Churchillian Drift and Quote Magnets

Dave Wilton, Sunday, September 27, 2009

Mark Peters over at Good talks to Fred Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, about false quotations, how quotes from less well-known individuals get ascribed to more famous people ("Churchillian drift"), and how Mark Twain is a “quote magnet.”

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