Ancestor Quote by Noah Webster

“There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and…

— Noah Webster

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also…

— Gunter Grass

We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and…

— Jan Tschichold

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

— Italo Calvino

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing…

— Robert MacNeil

“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.”

— Percival Everett

I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly…

— Ashwin Sanghi

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.

— Dr. Seuss

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will…

— Ambrose Bierce

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. How does German turn to Dutch, and how does Dutch turn…

— Jimenez Lai