“Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.” MotherLanguageTermExpressionHorrorLettersTongueNewspapersEditorsPredictionsCreepsMother Tongue Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk
“And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!” WorldHappensMotherFeltParentOpinionAdviceHorrorDiscoveryPrejudiceFolksRealisingSuperiorityPropositionsScorned Book:Love Over Scotland Source: Love Over Scotland