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A long time ago people in England started writing down stories that would pop into their heads. It was found that other people would pay them money for a copy of their story. So these writing people, who came to have the odd name of 'Authors', started having other people put their stories on papyrus, vellum, and later, paper. Some clever fellow named Gutenberg invented a way to print the stories on the paper in ink. These papers were sewn and glued together to make it handier for others to read the stories. The were given the odd name of 'buks', which we now call 'books'.

So, many people started writing stories and having them put in 'Books' . . . a lot of 'Books', and they were paid money to do this by other people who wanted to read their stories.

This went on for centuries. Someone had already called this story-writing "literature", "liter" meaning 'letter'.

So these stories were English and they were in the category called 'literature', so some clever person at some point called these stories, "English Literature".

Of course there was also French literature, Russian literature and so on, too.

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