What SuSaw
Susan Sawyers is a New York City based multimedia journalist and social media strategist. Mother of two, wife of one, she is interested in education, philanthropy and lifestyle reporting. She works as a producer for Bloomberg EDU, lives near Central Park and knows she's lucky.
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RIP Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, father of English literature, died this day in 1400.
Check the Oxford English Dictionary Twitter feed for some interesting etymology.
For example, the lexicon reports, that “#Chaucer’s texts provide the first recorded example for over 2000 words in the OED.”
This includes such stalwarts as “Twitter” (shown above), “Altercation” (from Merchant’s Tale), “Amble” (for Canterbury Tales) and “Annoying” (in a translation of Boethius).
