Linguofolkloristics: Genres of Folklore.Anecdotes.

This word originally meant something not published. It has two distinct  meanings. The  primary  one  is  something   not  published, in  which sense it  has been used to denote  either  secret  history,  history  of  Justians court or  portion of  ancient writers which have remained long in manuscripts and are  edited  for  the  first  time. Of such anecdote there are many collections.

In  the  general  acceptations  of  the  word  anecdotes  are  short  accounts  of detached interesting particulars. Of such anecdotes the collections are almost  infinite. A more recently collection is the Literary Anecdotes of the 19-th  century edited  by  W. R.  Nicole and T.S. Wise.