Almásy: Swoon, I'll catch you.
The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English casualty rates during the Napoleonic wars, English generals were more lavish with their soldiers' lives than were their French and German colleagues.
If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be.
Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.
I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.
I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my a...
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North Amer...
Poets make the best topographers.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'
Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.
The range and variety of Chaucer's English did much to establish English as a national language. Chaucer also contributed much to the formation of a standard English based on the dialect of the East Midlands region which was basically the dialect of ...
Do you understand the sadness of geography?
Regret; The saddest word in the English language.
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.
Dickens belongs to the English people.
English people have seen me get through scandals.
I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.
