Angie

“The gh at the end of many modern words, however, like dough, cough, and trough, is actually an artifact not of Dutch orthographic tendencies, but of Norman distaste for the Middle English letter yogh, which looked like this: 3. Yogh fell out of use around the end of the fifteenth century.”
― David Wolman, Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling

“Always, always, I had had to balance compassion with wisdom, love with judgment, humanity with ruthlessness.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

“clishmaclaver.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?” “Absence,” I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. “And fonder. If anything’s growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn’t be his heart.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager