Friday, January 23, 2015

To coin a phrase

You're almost certainly aware that Joseph Heller gave us "catch-22" and probably know that Shakespeare is responsible for a whole host of words (including such commonplace terms as "bump" and "road"), but what about the origins of words such as "beatnik", "serendipity" and "whodunit"? We've got writers to thank for those too.

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