I did modern English and American literature at Kent…

“Modern Our Father, who is in heaven, blessed be your name. Give us our daily bread today. All three of these languages were rich,…

— John McWhorter

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and…

— Noam Chomsky

On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction.

— Charles Garfield

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society, in which…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“pedagogue n. FORMAL or HUMOROUS a teacher, especially a strict or pedantic one. late Middle English: via Latin from Greek paidagōgos, denoting a slave…

— Angus Stevenson

“We closed the deal and moved to New York. Where in fact I had lived before, from the time I was twenty-one and just…

— Joan Didion

A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to…

— Eric Partridge

“To Michael Soule's three C's-cores, carnivores, and corridors-Foreman added "three W's: wilderness, wildways, and my favorite word in the English language, wildeor, which is…

— Mary Ellen Hannibal

“Oberon "Did Middle English hounds bark with an extra syllable on the end? like 'woofe'?”

— Kevin Hearne

Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“The language of Shakespeare is the first and lasting affirmation of the great changes that took place in the sixteenth century, leaving the Middle…

— Ronald Carter

“For a moment it seemed that her impeccably impractical education—in which she'd learned about Middle English and Duchamp's urinal and sub-Saharan droughts but had…

— Ralph Sassone

“C'mon. I'll show you." "Thou speakest strange!" Pearl said. "So do thou!" I said. "Thee!" "Thou!" I said.”

— Eileen Favorite

I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend…

— Helene Hanff