"To finish is both a relief and a……" — Robert Burchfield
"To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison."
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10 Quotes by Robert Burchfield
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The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
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Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.
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Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.
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I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our…
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I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning…
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In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English…
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The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language…
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At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and…
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Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are…
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