To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison..

In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not i….

I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed political….

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere..

At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the langua….

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error..

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art..

I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago,….

The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, s….

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib..

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flouri….