The BS Dictionary

NOTES

 

Introduction

1.   The phrase “history is written by the victors” has been credited to Winston Churchill, Niccolò Machiavelli, Voltaire, and others, but there doesn’t seem to be any documented proof that any actually uttered the phrase. Search results primarily give the credit to Winston Churchill.

2.   USDA, “Nebraska Women Lunch n Learn,” Extension Service Review 44, no. 7-8 (1973): 3. https://archive.org/stream/CAT10252415499/CAT10252415499_djvu.txt

3.   However, we do want to note that the OED is not always the “be all end all”—in many cases we were able to find older references than even that vaunted resource (thanks to the power of Google). Who’d have thought that two guys sitting at home at their computers could do that?

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