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“ Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. ”
― Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

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“ There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were. ...more ”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

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