One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full…
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
When learning English as a second language, be sure to garble small words out of order in incomplete sentences. Then…
Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to…
I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a…
Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache. John Patrick Lowrie, Dancing With Eternity
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement…
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse…
"I guess that isn't the right word," she said. She was used to apologizing for her use of language. She…
Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall. Joseph Conrad