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tattle

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:39 pm
by William Hupy
We all know tattletales. However, we do not all know how this word came to us. Now you will. From the late 15th century, meaning to prattle. It runs the gamut of most German languages. It was used as a noun in 1520s for a periodical, The Tattler.

Re: tattle

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 11:06 pm
by Perry Lassiter
The Tattler was famous, it seems to me.