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Originally Posted by HarryT
How about we just stick with the original definition of the term, as coined in 1907, that a blurb is promotional material for a book, either used in adverts or printed on the back of the book or its dust jacket? As such it would generally include both a brief description of the book and praise for it.
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Harry:
Which solves absolutely
nothing. That leaves us with the same muddled mess as before. I'll defer to Burgess' original intent. This doesn't, however, mean that we have to have a damsel on every cover, does it?
FWIW, the Germans think the usage was coined some years later, if memory serves.
As imprecision in language is far more the norm than the opposite, I'll simply demur.
Hitch