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October 18, 2011
Quotation Of The Day
Total and sudden transformations of language seldom happen; conquests and migrations are now very rare: but there are other causes of change, which, though slow in their operation, and invisible in their progress, are as much superiour to human resistance, as the revolutions of the sky, or intumescence of the tide. – Samuel Johnson, “preface,” A Dictionary of the English Language, (London: William Strahan, 1755), 10
Posted by Duane Smith at October 18, 2011 1:34 PM | Read more on Odds and Ends |
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