Kate Burridge

“Shakespeare often violated rules of Latin word formation and this may well have got up the noses of the purists of the time. However, some expressions would simply have outlived their usefulness. There is not much call these days for a questrist ‘one who goes in quest of another’.”
― Kate Burridge, Gift of the Gob: Morsels of English Language History

“These days we are so immersed in the printed word, and so used to seeing white spaces between words, that this sort of boundary shifting seems surprising. Yet, to my mind, more astonishing is just how well little children figure out where these imaginary white spaces occur in the streams of sound that surround them. Speech is a biological miracle.”
― Kate Burridge, Gift of the Gob: Morsels of English Language History