"Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so."

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Source : "Sound Change". "Wordmaster" with Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 12, 2005.

William Labov

#Years Quotes #Dialect Quotes #Hundred Quotes

“Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.”
“It's so much easier just to eat and work out than not eat and work out like crazy.”
“Boston is the engine of the state's economy.”

Source : Thomas M. Menino (2014). “Mayor for a New America”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I believe the message in the hymn "Rise Up, O Men of God" (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a divine invitation for us to rise above the telestial tinsel of our time; to deny ourselves of ungodliness and clothe ourselves in the mantle of holiness; to reach and stretch and grasp for that spiritual direction and sacred empowerment promised to the Lord's agents, to those charged to act in the name of our Principal, Jesus Christ; and to point the way to salvation and deliverance and peace in a world that finds itself enshrouded in darkness, a world that yearns for spiritual leadership.”
“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”
“Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.”
“There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist”
“A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.”

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