Talk:Writing style

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The contents of the Style (literature) page were merged into Writing style on 03 July 2016. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

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Does anyone have any information on the circulation of the word 'style'? Rather than simply examples of 'style' - where/when has the word been introduced? Would be interesting to trace back. The sources provided are all post 1970s.

My current thoughts are that the word is a miss-translation of the noun 'Staël' - the principality?

If anyone has any evidence of use of the word pre 1800s that would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.233.116.159 (talk) 05:38, 21 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It comes via French from the Latin stylus for a writing instrument. It developed the "manner of expression" meaning in Latin too. The OED first cites this meaning in English at c. 1330 - "Style. 13". Johnbod (talk) 14:21, 21 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]