Rumor - WikipediaThis article is about a type of message. For other uses, see Rumor (disambiguation) and Rumors (disambiguation). A 1930s Works Progress Administration poster depicts a man with WPA shovel attacking a wolf labeled 'rumor'. A rumor (American English), or rumour (British English; see spelling differences; derived from Latin rumorem 'noise'), is "a tall tale of explanations of events circulating from
