Picks Quote by Jesse Sheidlower

Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.

— John Galsworthy

I write in American slang.

— Norman Spinrad

“I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think I heard…

— James Weldon Johnson

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

— Dennis Farina

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

— Ike Turner

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the…

— George Eliot

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

— Salvador de Madariaga

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

— Rudyard Kipling

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they…

— Mark Twain

When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.

— Juno Temple

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

— Keith Waterhouse