Dog ear (bookmark)

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Dog-ear

A bent corner of a sheet of paper - usually a book - is called a dog- ear ; also a magazine or newspaper . The name comes from the shape of the kink, which resembles an ear, and from the meaning of donkey as a swear word .

The upper corner of documents and certificates , the individual sheets of which are to be marked as belonging together, is folded down so that a stamp can be placed on it, which is then visible on all sheets of the document. See shed documents

Emergence

The kinking of one or more page corners results either from a deliberate marking intended as a bookmark for the purpose of faster retrieval of a page or from carelessness, for example through improper transport in pockets or careless writing on a sheet of paper. Business cards , for example, were intentionally creased so that they could easily be picked up from the silver platter they were lying on.

history

The term is already described in the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm as “folium libri complicatum, a mark in the book you have read by turning a corner of the paper.” They refer to the poet Andreas Gryphius (1616–1664), who wrote in one of his verses

"In there ( in the books ) he puts some hands and stars and dog-ears and braided ties."

Phrase

The expression "It is seldom a book without a dog-ear", also noted by the Brothers Grimm without reference to the author, goes back to the Augustinian monk Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644–1709), who expressed it in a comparison with the profession of lawyers. It should mean that all things and people can also have faults or, as he said: "So it is also seldom a class and profession without bad people: therefore unscrupulous and faultless fellows can also be found among the lawyers."

Legal evaluation

Intentional or unintentional insertion of a side crease is considered to be damage to property in the holdings of public libraries and can oblige the user to obtain a replacement copy or to reimburse the material value.

Other languages

  • In England, donkey ears are known as dog- ears.
  • In France they are called Corne (horn).
  • In Spanish they say doblez (kink).

swell

  1. ↑ Dog- ear 2). In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 3 : E – research - (III). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1862, Sp. 1155 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. Friedrich Hopp: Magazine for those who love to laugh. Contains: amusing stories ... Anton Benko, 1842, p. 230 ( books.google.de ): "[...] rarely a book without a dog's ear, [...]"
  3. General Terms of Use of the Bavarian State Libraries (ABOB) . Bavarian State Library .