{"id":39921,"date":"2018-09-06T00:25:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T05:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=39921"},"modified":"2018-09-06T16:33:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T21:33:17","slug":"lodestar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=39921","title":{"rendered":"Lodestar 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on the idea that the use of the word lodestar<\/em>\u00a0is evidence of Mike Pence's authorship<\/a> —<\/p>\n

From the anonymous NYT editorial<\/a>, describing McCain:\u00a0\"a lodestar<\/strong> for restoring honor<\/strong> to public life\".<\/p>\n

From Kissinger at McCain's funeral<\/a>: \"Honor<\/strong> was John's Lodestar<\/strong>\".<\/p>\n

From Holinshed,\u00a0The Third volume of Chronicles<\/a>, beginning at duke William the Norman, commonlie called the Conqueror; and descending by degrees of yeeres to all the kings and queenes of England in their orderlie successions<\/em>\u00a0 (1586), a description of Henry the Fifth at his death in 1422:<\/p>\n

Knowen be it therefore, of person and forme was this prince rightlie representing his heroicall affects, of stature and proportion tall and manlie, rather leane than grose, somewhat long necked and blacke haired, of countenance amiable, eloquent and graue was his sp\u00e9ech, and of great grace and power to persuade: for conclusion, a maiestie was he that both liued & died\u00a0a paterne in princehood,\u00a0a lode-starre in honour<\/b>, and mirrour of magnificence: the more highlie exalted in his life, the more d\u00e9epelie lamented at his death, and famous to the world alwaie.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From William Francis Bourdillon, \"Lament for Belgium\" (1914):<\/p>\n

61 And when our children's children shall walk that blood-drenched soil,<\/span>
\n62 Where scarce is field to ravage or city left to spoil,<\/span>
\n63 And see the cattle grazing and townsfolk at their toil;<\/span><\/p>\n

64 Then shall they say of Belgium, in language soft with tears,<\/span>
\n65 'She was a lesser star whom fire made bright above her peers,<\/span>
\n66 To be the shining lodestar\u00a0<\/strong>by which all honour<\/strong> steers.'<\/span><\/p>\n

From the North Korean Central News Agency in English, 12\/3\/1987:<\/p>\n

Today the South Korean people are ardently revering dear Comrade Kim Chong-il, considering it supreme honour<\/strong> and happiness to hold him in high esteem as the lodestar<\/strong> of the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Update — see Kyle Swenson and Allyson Chiu, \"Nixon had \u2018Deep Throat,\u2019 Trump has \u2018Lodestar\u2019: An archaic word becomes a resistance hashtag<\/a>\", WaPo<\/em> 9\/6\/2018.<\/p>\n

Update #2 — As Ben Zimmer points out in the comments, there have been some more serious attempts at authorship analysis. I'm about to head to the airport in Hyderabad for the long plane ride back to Philadelphia via London, in British Airways' execrable cramped coach seats. After I get back and get some sleep, I'll do a more serious review of the various attempts.<\/p>\n

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Following up on the idea that the use of the word lodestar\u00a0is evidence of Mike Pence's authorship — From the anonymous NYT editorial, describing McCain:\u00a0\"a lodestar for restoring honor to public life\". From Kissinger at McCain's funeral: \"Honor was John's Lodestar\". From Holinshed,\u00a0The Third volume of Chronicles, beginning at duke William the Norman, commonlie called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39921"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39945,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39921\/revisions\/39945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}