Average joe Quote by Kory Stamper

Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was…

— Forrest Carter

I don't particularly like the word average because when it comes down to it there is no average in people. Everybody has their own…

— Matthew Carter

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

— John Galsworthy

“And it's beyond my energy to explain why I don't think that four-letter word that everyone's so obsessed over and that gets everyone into…

— Kendare Blake

“use words that fit the context, to learn when to use high-flown language and when to use down-home words, and generally quit putting on…

— Kory Stamper

The most ordinary words have amazing life in them.

— Robert P. T. Coffin

Slang moves on so fast that most new words disappear soon after they are coined. But there is always something that sticks behind.

— Susie Dent

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

— Thomas Carlyle

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

— Dave Barry

Words are the money of fools. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

— Thomas Hobbes

“Ockham snorted. "I am no nominalist. The problem with teaching the Modern Way is that lesser scholars, excited by the novelty, seldom bother to…

— Michael Flynn

“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words, definitions, examples—was…

— Shion Miura