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“While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.”

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Former United States Secretary of State, born on February 9, 1909, and died on December 20, 1994. He served as the Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and was a key figure in the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. more

“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.”

Way Two Moving Form Language Tvs Goes On Elements British Magazines Cinema Devices Continuing Two Ways Time Goes On Time Magazine American English

Author:Robert Burchfield

“In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country.”

Way Country America Mother Language East Radical Indian Coast English Language North America East Coast Settlers Infusion Mother Country

Author:Robert Burchfield

“The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.”

Language Pages Adults Doctors Practicals Intimate Instruction Regimes Severe Diaries Johnson Polished Stylish

Author:Robert Burchfield

“At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.”

Order Language Difficult Periods Slips Scholar English Language New Words

Author:Robert Burchfield

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