Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
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)