Dog ears

As a dog-ear a folded corner of a sheet of paper is called - usually a book; also a magazine or newspaper. The name comes on the one hand from an aesthetic point of the bend that is similar to one ear, the other part of the meaning of donkey as an insult.

Formation

The twisting of one or more page corners arises either from a intended as a bookmark imaginary mark for the purpose of rapid retrievability one side or from carelessness, for example due to improper transport in bags or careless writing on a sheet of paper. Business cards were for example, deliberately bent, so that they easily absorb the silver tray on which they lay, can.

History

Already in the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm, the term is known as the folium libri complicatum as frontlets read in the book by turn a leaf corner. They refer to the poet Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664), who wrote in one of his verses

" Bargain ( in books ), it has some hand and star and donkey ear and braided belt. "

Phrase

The annotated also with the Brothers Grimm without reference to the author saying it is rarely a book without dog-ear goes back to the Augustinian monk Abraham a Santa Clara (1644-1709) and is intended to imply that all things and people may also have errors.

In other languages

• In England, dog-ears are called dog -ear (dog ear).
• In France they are called Corne ( horn).
• In Spanish they say doblez ( buckling ).

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