On 23 September 2013 16:35, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A. B said A. C wrote that B said A. These are all different, and we should
bear that in mind.
My favourite example is Queen Elizabeth's famous speech at Tilbury. We have
a decent article on that. There are actually two sources for it, and they
aren't compatible. The more probable one is hearsay, from a guy who used to
do the speech she made as a kind of party piece. Most raconteurs embroider.
Charles