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Thought For the Day: I Speak Two Languages, Body and English
“I speak two languages, Body and English.” -Mae West, actress, playwright, singer, screenwriter, and comedian (17 Aug 1893-1980)
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Tagged Body, English, Language, Mae West, Speak, Thought For the Day, Two
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Thought For the Day: I Speak Two Languages, Body and English
“I speak two languages, Body and English.” – Mae West, actress, playwright, singer, screenwriter, and comedian (17 Aug 1893-1980)
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Tagged Body, English, Langauge, Mae West, Speak, Thought For the Day, Two
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Given the Dickens I’ve Known
Show of hands, who has read Charles Dickens in their lives? Who in the last 30 years? Yet, he stands as perhaps the greatest novelist in the English language. It almost scares me to know that I had read five … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Alley Ways, Breach, Century, Charles Dickens, Childhood, Clarity, Classes, Common Cause, Days, Debt, Decade, Endure, English, Hope, Imprisonment, Industrial, Lawyer, Life, Masses, Misery, Morality, Novelist, Photograph, Poem, Poet's Corner, Poetry, Reaches, Sentimentality, Severity, Society, Society's Contract, Squalor, Strife, Struck, Struggle, Tales, Westminster Abby
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Webster’s Calling
At one time, Noah Webster called for a unifying national language of American English. On learning that the English were buying his dictionary, he decided instead it was a better thing to recognize that English is English with more in … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Authority, Civility, Clarity, Destruction, Dictionary, Dilect, Dissertation, Effort, Elite, English, Expressive, Independence, Linguist, National Language, Original Construction, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pronounce, Rules, Standard, Unity, Webster, Words
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Subversive Words
It’s funny to think of a dictionary as subversive isn’t it? Yet, there was a maelstrom of resistance to changes in how to approach English in 1961. Subversive Words by Michael Romani In 1961, wordsmiths grew defensive Declaring Webster’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Coinage, Critics, Dictionary, English, Equalizer, Flux, Inclusion, Kerfuffle, Leveling Effect, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political Consequences, Preference, Reference, Shakespeare, Slang, Subversive, Webster, Word Misers, Words, Wordsmith
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Thought For the Day: Standard English Is A Convenient Abstraction
“Standard English is a convenient abstraction, like the average man.” – George Leslie Brook, English professor, author (1910-1987)
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Tagged Abstraction, Convenience, English, George Leslie Brook, Language, Standard, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Pain Is To Love In Vain
“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.” – Abraham Crowley
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Tagged Abraham Crowley, English, Love, Pain, Poet, Thought For the Day, Unrequitted
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
This Christian allegory written in 1678 by John Bunyan is more fully entitled The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World To That Which Is To Come. It is often said to be the first novel written in English . Certainly, it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Allegory, Coventicle Act, English, Grace, Harvard Classics, John Bunyan, Novel, The Pilgrim's Progress
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First Principles: A Person’s Home Is Their Castle
“One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle.”– James Otis, On the Writs of Assistance (1761)
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Tagged Castle, English, First Principles, Freedom, Home, James Otis, Liberty, On the Writs of Assistance
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