Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Richard W. Bailey

Born: 1939
Died: 2011 (aged 72)
Bio: Richard Weld Bailey was an American linguist, scholar of the English language, and the Fred Newton Scott Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Known for:
- Images of English (1991)
- Nineteenth-century English (1996)
- English stylistics (1965)
- Rogue Scholar (2003)