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One cannot but be impressed by the amazing hospitality of the English language.
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The English language is like a fleet of juggernaut trucks that goes on regardless. No form of linguistic engineering and no amount of linguistic legislation will prevent the cycles of change that lie ahead.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Robert Burchfield
Born:
January 27, 1923
Died:
July 5, 2004
(aged 81)
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Robert William Burchfield was a lexicographer, scholar, and writer, who edited the Oxford English Dictionary for thirty years to 1986, and was Chief Editor from 1971.
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