Alice in wonderland Quote by Mike Tucker

“Here in the Black Country they call good food ‘bostin’ fittle’. Fittle means vittles. Good vittles, bostin’ fittle. They have their own language here.…

— Margaret Drabble

The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.

— Janet Fitch

About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill…

— Clement Freud

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed.…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— Dennis Farina

You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Words are as beautiful as wind horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral.

— Ted Berkman

“Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldygrak. Isn’t it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something…

— Brandon Sanderson

Why are people still using a dictionary? I just type the words into Google and see if it corrects me.

— Anonymous

“He compiled lists of old words too – words of a precision and suggestiveness that no longer had a meaningful application in today’s world,…

— Margaret Atwood

“baloney is flattery so thick it cannot be true; blarney is flatter so thin we like it.”

— Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

— Anonymous