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Author - Mary Norris
Quotes by : Mary Norris
words
Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.
language
So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.
language
Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and....
writer
The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.
legislate
You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not....
writer
Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?....
language
If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.
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