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«Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets»
Author: Eddy Peters
| About:
Language,
Words
| Keywords:
alleys, borrow, chases, English, English language, Head down, hits, languages, Other languages, pockets, the English
«More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.»
Author: Gen John W. Vessey, Jr.
| Keywords:
battlefield, battlefields, English language, factor, misunderstood, Pentagon, screwed, the English, The Pentagon, up on
«Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language»
Author: Henry James
| About:
Beauty,
Language,
Words
| Keywords:
afternoon, English, English language, summer, summers, the English
«My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets / no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!»
Author: Philip Roth
| Keywords:
bombed, bombing, bombs, bullets, communication, containing, conversation, crossfire, duck, English, English language, gifts, meanings, shoot, shot, the English
«My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
decline, English language, give and take, interviewed, interviewing, interviews, off-hand, offhand, opposition, oral, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, The Decline, the English, The Interview
«ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war --so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points of difference between them, but the fashion in hair was the fundamental cause of quarrel. The Cavaliers were royalists because the king, an indolent fellow, found it more convenient to let his hair grow than to wash his neck. This the Roundheads, who were mostly barbers and soap-boilers, deemed an injury to trade, and the royal neck was therefore the object of their particular indignation. Descendants of the belligerents now wear their hair all alike, but the fires of animosity enkindled in that ancient strife smoulder to this day beneath the snows of British civility.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Ancient of Days, animosities, animosity, barber, barbered, Barbers, belligerent, boiler, British, British and, Cavalier, civil, civilities, civility, civil war, convenient, deemed, descendant, descendants, English Civil War, enkindled, enkindles, fires, indignation, indolent, injury, member, mostly, neck, parliamentarian, quarrel, Roundhead, royal, royalist, smoulder, snows, so-called, soap, soaps, strife, The Civil War, The Descendants, the English, the king, The Object of, to this day, wash, wore
«The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad»
«The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
cricket, crickets, English, English people, invented, the English
