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Worde

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[wawrd] / wɔrd /

noun

  1. Wynkyn de Jan Van Wynkyn, died 1534 or 35, English printer.


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In the fall, Worde Horde will release a new collection by the prolific writer Orrin Grey titled “How to See Ghosts & Other Figments.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2022

The thoroughfare became synonymous with publishing from 1500 when Wynkyn de Worde established a printing press.

From Reuters • Aug. 5, 2016

William de Worde Lord Fleet of the Street Holde the Frontpage Salman Rushdie Who is the author of The Devil Wears Prada, in which a young journalist becomes the assistant to a bullying fashion-magazine editor?

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2012

In this, he was helped by his protégé, the propitiously named Wynkyn de Worde, whose fonts were imitated throughout Europe.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2010

The first printed collection of Christmas carols was published in 1521 by William Caxton’s appropriately named apprentice and successor, Wynkyn de Worde.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall