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# Henry Hitchings

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Henry Hitchings is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural history. The second of his books, The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English, won the 2008 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. H

##  Quotes by Henry Hitchings

> [“Often we have three terms for the same thing--one Anglo-Saxon, one French, and one clearly absorbed from Latin or Greek. The Anglo-Saxon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-hitchings/often-we-have-three-terms-for-the-same-thing-one-anglo-saxon-one/)

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