Hm,
I had been told by an English professor that Edgar Allen Poe
invented the word, but when I looked it up in the American Heritage
Dictionary, it appeared as though the roots came from Latin... stranger
still, all the other dictionaries I checked attributed it to Poe. I wonder
who's right?
Dan
At 09:56 AM 3/3/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Tintinnabulation is of common use in French, as much as the verb
>"tintinnabuler", but I didn't know it was invented: who's the author? (Lewis
>Carrol? James Joyce? Barbara Cartland?)
>Bertrand
> > I must admit, it says a lot about an artist when an invented word becomes
> > part of language.
> > Do you think that in itself is fluxus?
