English Linguist Quotes

Charlotte Mary Yonge

Ernest Wood

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

Pale disease Shall linger by thy side, and thou shalt know Eternal autumn to thy day of death.

In English we have noticed twenty-five consonant and about twenty vowel phonemes. Although individual pronunciations may differ, the phonemic habits of the same group or class will be similar. They will make similar use of heterophony. Words not phonetically separated — that is, homophones — may be separated by function or by experiential context

John Rupert Firth

It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind is not conscious but we are conscious of the mind.

A little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.