tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post6349237251841817098..comments2024-03-29T03:01:54.922-07:00Comments on bloginafog: From this week's 'New Yorker' magazineWoflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-39717827738349902962012-01-29T07:25:26.440-08:002012-01-29T07:25:26.440-08:00On a different tack altogether, the word 'Maga...On a different tack altogether, the word 'Magazine' derives from the Arabic word for a storehouse, and first meant this in French and English. Then it meant a storehouse for arms. Then a shop (a storehouse for consumer goods) and finally a weekly, bimensual or monthly publication which was a storehouse of information or tittle-tattle.Woflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com