Logo
Quote by Robert Burchfield
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchab

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

Other quotes by Robert Burchfield
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Language
category

Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. – From a Washington Post reader submission word contest

Category:
Language

The refined scholar sustains himself on the finest aged wines of poetry but should take time occasionally to partake of cheap-ale words. – Terri Guillemets, “Drinking Literature,” 2003

Category:
Language

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes

Category:
Language

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. – Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 1959 February 13th

Category:
Language

Random Quotes

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love – I love them all. And I think Ive been a good father to all of them. – Anthony Quinn

Category:
dad

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. – Voltaire

Category:
great

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. – Joseph Cook

Category:
Conscience

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon. – Dave Sim

Category:
Beginnings