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Hey kids, I know I'm cheesy, but here is a little literary tidbit for ya.
Hey, it was in my word-a-day email, so it's not like I had to go searching
for it or anything.
laura

omnibus (OM-ni-bus) noun

1. A long motor vehicle for passengers; a bus.

2. A printed anthology of the works of one author or of writings
on related subjects.

adjective

Including or covering many things or classes.

[French, from Latin, for all, dative pl. of omnis, all.]

"If the general intellectual for whom he wrote now looks at them at all,
it would be in the anthology of extracts he prepared in Bricks to Babel:
an omnibus volume from 1982 ...."
Bernard Crick, Books: Putting the rat in rational, Independent, 7 Nov
1998.






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Hey kids, I know I'm cheesy, but here is a little literary tidbit for ya. Hey, it was in my word-a-day email, so it's not like I had to go searching for it or...
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