Man sol so"   vrouwen ziehen† das si u«  ppecl|"che spru«  che lasen under wegen. Women should be trained in such a way that they avoid idle chatter.

-Anonymous
c.1200  Das Nibelungenlied, ch.14, l.193^4.

For themost of us, if we donot talkof ourselves, orat any rate of the individual circles of which we are the centres, we can talk of nothing. I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

-Trollope, Anthony
Framley Parsonage, ch.10.