Words on words : quotations about language and languages

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Words on words : quotations about language and languages

David Crystal and Hilary Crystal

University of Chicago Press, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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From Homer to Robert Burns to Rudyard Kipling, writers from all over the world have put pen to paper on the inexhaustible topic of language. This work has collected nearly 5000 quotations about language, and all its aspects - speaking, reading, writing, translation and verbosity, for example.

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