NOELLE ASHLEY | March 23, 2015

“I offered Richard the service of my Free Lances, and he refused them … thanks to the bustling times, a man of action will always find employment,” Sir Walter Scott wrotes in his classic novel, Ivanhoe. Scott (allegedly) coined the term “free lances” to mean people with no particular allegiance who would sell their services to anyone — and thus, we get the modern word, “freelance.”

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