Hola MaHigh-School - February 2020

Fake news – Not so new
We have been exposed to a lot of ‘fake news’ or claims of fake news lately.
But it is not a new thing. Look at Marcia’s article and re-evaluate what
you know of Brutus.
Let us look at what history tells us. All of this is inspired by an article from
The Guardian.
How about being a Taradiddler? Quote: “the
splendid old title of “taradiddler” is the one who
deliberately spreads falsehood. The noun “taradiddle”,
for the lie itself, is attested from 1796,
in Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar
Tongue, where it is defined as “a fib, or falsity”.
Here is another great word: Quote: “In 1646, the physician
and philosopher Thomas Browne published his
Pseudodoxia Epidemica. Among the rogue’s gallery of
mischievous agents of misinformation portrayed are
“Saltimbancoes, Quacksalvers, and Charlatans. “Saltimbanco”,
to mean “an itinerant charlatan who sold
supposed medicines and remedies”. The word de-