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Our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, vnmixt and vnmangled with borrowing of other tunges.
John Cheke
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Roland Barthes
John Cheke
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Born:
June 16, 1514
Died:
September 13, 1557
(aged 43)
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Sir John Cheke was an English classical scholar and statesman, notable as the first Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University.
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