You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

by Kelsey McKinney

the French have two different nouns for gossip: one for women’s talk (commérage) and one for men’s (comperage). Only commérage is still used.

“To some extent, the teenage market—and, in fact, the very notion of the teenager—has been created by the businessmen who exploit it,” Dwight Macdonald wrote in the New Yorker in 1958.