The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error. - Robert Burchfield
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.
- Robert Burchfield
Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flouri… - Robert Burchfield
Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flouri…
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. - Robert Burchfield
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.
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… - Robert Burchfield
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…
Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art. - Robert Burchfield
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,… - Robert Burchfield
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,…
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… - Robert Burchfield
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…
American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere. - Robert Burchfield
American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.
I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed political… - Robert Burchfield
I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed political…
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