Making Book

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Anatoly Liberman tells us at his etymological Oxford University Press blog, that the word brochure derives from the French verb brocher, to sew a book, to stitch it together. Thus etymologically all brochures should be stitched. And pretty much they are — bear in mind that wire staples count as stitching — in the trade […]

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