Characteristics Quote by F. E. Adcock

This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

L-o-v-e's just another word I never learned to pronounce.

— 3OH!3

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.

— Nina Simone

Hey, look. 'Esc-a-pay.' I wonder what that means? That's funny, it's spelled just like the word 'escape.'

— Finding Nemo

A name means a lot just by itself.

— Jenny Holzer

I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone…

— Moby

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

— James Joyce

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually…

— Elvis Costello

“Names have been further distinguished into univocal and æquivocal: these, however, are not two kinds of names, but two different modes of employing names.”

— John Stuart Mill

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

— Lytton Strachey

I don't think I can repeat any of the French words I know on camera, to be honest.

— Ollie Watkins

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English…

— Anonymous