Quote of the day
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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)