Quotes by Burchfield, Robert

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable a >>

Quotations about Language

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of >>

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I >>

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in >>

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

Burchfield, Robert