Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776, are continuing to move apart, and that existing elements of linguistic dissimilarity between them will intensify as time goes on, notwithstanding the power of the cinema, TV, Time Magazine, and other two-way gluing and fuelling devices.

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.

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