"Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices."

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Source : "David Crystal: the story of English spelling" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2012.

David Crystal

#People Quotes #Choices Quotes #Made Quotes

“I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime”
“Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2006.
“There is no question that a very large number of people have to move; you cannot live where the water comes over you. I have not heard one suggestion on how we are going to move one hundred million people out of low-lying areas and what countries would be willing to accept them.”
“Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system. (1794)”

Source : Erasmus Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ...”, p.480
“Don't take things for granted.”
“I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.”
“If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1979). “Pilgrimage”
“The vital spirit. L'Ã©lan vital”

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