“ I know only two words of American slang, ‘swell’ and ‘lousy.’ I think ‘swell’ is lousy, but ‘lousy’ is swell.
J.B. Priestley
Lexicogging
“ One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment.
-Hart Crane, poet (1899-1932)
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My First Dictionary.
This is what happens when you piss off the manufacturing department.
An average Wednesday at the office.
via ffffound.
(thanks to Sendhil for pointing this one out)
Chicago = know-how
“Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most people who live there. If you could read people’s thoughts as they were passing you on the streets, you would discover that most of them are thinking the same thought.”
from Eat Pray Love
via bobulate
“ Formal grammatical rules may help a weak or stupid mind, but a vigorous intellect creates new and more accurate forms and less gifted thinkers intuitively accept without a thought these beautiful creations as they accept without a thought the countless creations of nature with which they are surrounded. Thus our language is growing richer from generation to generation.
G. Curme, Has English A Future Tense?, The Journal of English and German Philolog, 12(5):528-529
