gossip

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• 9-7-14
  

  Why Historians Can't Afford to Ignore Gossip

  by Kathleen A. Feeley and Jennifer Frost

  Gossip, rumor, hearsay, tittle-tattle, scuttlebutt, scandal, dirt. Whatever the term, gossip is one of the most common—and most condemned—forms of discourse in which we engage.