One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If in the course of any of these language activities, you run across words whose meaning or use baffles you, don't… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff? — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If in the course of… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
“Of all the words that exist in any language only a bare minority are pure, unadulterated, original roots. The majority are "coined" words, forms… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff? — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
