“and all children everywhere go through a phase in which they become oddly fascinated with the idea of “gone” and “all gone.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
“Sometimes these differences in meaning take on a kind of bewildering circularity. A tramp in Britain is a bum in America, while a bum in Britain is a fanny in America, while a fanny in Britain is—well, we’ve covered that. To a foreigner it must seem sometimes as if we are being intentionally contrary.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
“One of Milton’s poems contains the well-known line “Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
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