Different Quote by David Crystal

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

— Ha Jin

English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.

— Susie Dent

From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.

— Susie Dent

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that…

— Robert A. Heinlein

English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach.

— David Crystal

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

— Robert Burchfield

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

— Mason Cooley

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

— David Crystal

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

— Ravi Zacharias

In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other…

— William Golding

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply…

— Edward Sapir

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings…

— David Crystal