Strange but true
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Strange but true (or strange, but true) is a phrase often used to refer to a tabloid newspaper column (such as the Weekly World News) that features unusual stories. The c. 1937 True magazine had a "Strange But True" section on the back cover.
Perhaps the earliest use of the phrase in a published work is in Shakespeare's Macbeth (~1599).
A "Strange But True" column, authored by brothers Bill Sones and Rich Sones, is distributed to U.S. newspapers.[1]
Notable uses[edit]
- Ross: "And—strange but true!—Duncan's horses, beautiful and swift, the best of their kind, broke down their stalls and ran wild They refused to obey, as if they were at war with mankind." (Act III, scene IV of Macbeth, between Ross and Old Man outside of Macbeth's castle)
- 'Tis strange — but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction —Don Juan by Lord Byron (Canto 14), 1819
- The 1859 Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque in a reprinted 1704 account by Edward F. Rimbault ("printed for R. Smith near Spittle-Fields Market") titled A most Strange but True Account of a very Large Sea-Monster.[2]
- It is strange, but true as strange, that imitation generally interests us more than reality. —Richard Grant White, Life and Genius of Shakespeare, 1865
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References[edit]
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Google Books, Notes and Queries, Martim de Albuquerque, Oxford University Press, 1859, p. 42
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