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“What a man knows isn’t important. It’s what he is that counts”

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The story follows the arrival of an ex-gunfighter named Shane in a small town, where he becomes entangled in the lives of the townspeople and their conflicts with neighboring ranchers. more

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Jack Schaefer

Jack Schaefer was an American author born in November 1907 and died in January 1991. Known for his Western novels, his works include 'The Man from Laramie' and others. more

“The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew.”

Problem Example Bears Relation Wine Beach Volume Alphabet Zoos Yacht

Book:The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

Source: The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

“If you are to use Alexander Graham Bell’s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would have wished; and Dr Bell insisted that all phone calls should begin with the words ‘Ahoy, ahoy’. Nobody knows why he insisted this – he had no connection to the navy – but insist he did and started every phone call that way. Nobody else did, and it was at the suggestion of his great rival Edison that people took to saying ‘Hello’. This seems unfair.”

Source: Mark Forysth's Gemel Edition: The Etymologicon and The Horologicon ebook bundle

“So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.”

Century Bases Familiar Eggs Chickens Fart

Book:The Horologicon

Source: The Horologicon

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