Foreigners Quote by Mark Twain

Its funny how peoples accents show in their spelling.

— Laleh

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age…

— Vivien Leigh

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

— Anonymous

At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying.

— Frank Robinson

“The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes,” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-​u-​i and not w-​e-​e.”

— Stephanie Perkins

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the…

— Josh Billings

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

— Stephen D. Krashen

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no…

— George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps it's an accident of nationality, but the English treasure subtlety and appreciate not having everything spelled out for them, while Americans want everything…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

— Alaina Huffman

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

— Karl Lagerfeld

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

— Mark Twain