Time Quote by Ben Crystal

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

“The story of the English writing system is so intriguing, and the histories behind individual words so fascinating, that anyone who dares to treat…

— David Crystal

I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years…

— Robert Burchfield

“In the first place, there is no point whatever in being able to spell anything. Shakespeare and Milton could not spell; Marie Corelli and…

— Bertrand Russell

“During the period of the Renaissance, the English language changed very swiftly in keeping with rapid social, economic and political changes. However, writers in…

— Ronald Carter

“I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there…

— Mark Twain

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell

“My parents were told by the principal of West Barnstable Elementary School and my teacher that I was a bright boy whose spelling was…

— Mark Vonnegut

“And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a…

— Bill Bryson

“Language is changing constantly; printing and modern education have slowed it but have not stopped it. Given all this change, when, exactly, was language…

— Robert Lane Greene

“Then again, it'd taken more than two hundred years after the invention of the scientific method before any Muggle scientists had thought to systematically…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there…

— Mark David Ledbetter