A few days ago
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Can someone give me some quotations about english language (something positive pls)?

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A few days ago
Carol M

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English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway. ~Author Unknown

Our language is funny – a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing. ~J. Gustav White

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. ~Mignon McLaughlin

“I am” is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that “I do” is the longest sentence?”

~ George Carlin

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A few days ago
angela l
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Author: Walt Whitman

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

Author: Robert Burchfield

Give us this day our daily bread” is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language. ~P.J. Wingate

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James

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