Charm Quote by Israel Shenker

There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can see, something…

— Daniel Wallace

Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last.

— David Rusenko

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

— Bill Bryson

Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and…

— William Feather

What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the obnoxious overuse…

— Nicholas G. Carr

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

— Moby

Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking…

— Lindley Murray

If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the…

— Charles Saatchi

Every time I get the chance, I just talk to myself basically in English just to practice my pronunciation.

— Rich Brian

And in his third essay Herodius (not Herodotus, a mistaken pronunciation, perhaps) said 'We can contend with the evil that men do in the…

— Richard Boone

I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep…

— Gerard Nolst Trenité