English language Archive

Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard,

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language. Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land Favorite0

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child. Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper Favorite0