Gossip is in the ear of the beholder

January 17, 2010

Friends, Romans, Countrymen-do not lend me your ears.

I come to bury gossip, not to praise it. For the quality of slander is not restrained. It is twice cursed. Gossip curseth him that gives and him that takes.

Since the beginning of time people have talked about each other. I am certain in caveman times they sat around rubbing sticks together: “When is Ug ever going to evolve and get his paws off the ground? ”

However, the word gossip didn’t surface in our language until Old English. The word godsib originally referred to a close female friend present at the birth of a

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