The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language. George Bernard Shaw, widely attributed beginning…
Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don’t speak English?”…
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…
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