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The American Language (1919)
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The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.
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Philadelphia has always been one of the most Pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.
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The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.
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Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
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Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
Mary McCarthy
H. L. Mencken
Born:
September 12, 1880
Died:
January 29, 1956
(aged 75)
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