American Quote by Robert Burchfield Download Open image “American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.” — Robert Burchfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare American American english English Greatest Greatest Influence Influence Influence English
English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I love American English, not least because a lot of it was ours to begin with. Indeed, many Americanisms can be found in the… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power. — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
“English is the most dominant language in the world philosophically, culturally, and Jarod Kintzically.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English. — Melania Trump Copy Share Image
I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die,… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished,… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
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