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Remember how Mrs. Rowlings' name for "Dumbledore" comes from a medieval word for "bumblebee?"
Well, according to my Forgotten English calander (by Jeffrey Kacirk):
"Grangerise"
Grangerisation is the addition of all sorts of things directly and indirectly bearing on [a] book in question, illustrating it, connected with it or its author, or even the author's family. It includes autograph letters, caricatures, prints, broadsheets, biographical sketches, anecdotes, scandals, press notices, parallel passages, and any other matter which can be got together... for the matter in hand. The word is from Rev. James Granger.
~Ebenexer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898."
... that was a direct quote, by the way.
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Well, according to my Forgotten English calander (by Jeffrey Kacirk):
"Grangerise"
Grangerisation is the addition of all sorts of things directly and indirectly bearing on [a] book in question, illustrating it, connected with it or its author, or even the author's family. It includes autograph letters, caricatures, prints, broadsheets, biographical sketches, anecdotes, scandals, press notices, parallel passages, and any other matter which can be got together... for the matter in hand. The word is from Rev. James Granger.
~Ebenexer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898."
... that was a direct quote, by the way.
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