English Wordplay ~ Listen and Enjoy

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QUOTES

"English is the greatest, the most fertile and stunningly successful language the world has ever heard."

Boris Johnson

"Actors are taught at drama school how to get inside the image that underlies the word.  If an actor succeeds ... in projecting the images behind half of his words, you will indeed call that actor a genius.  For his soul is speaking directly with the souls of those sitting or standing in the auditorium.  And during the play people will laugh or cry as they feel in their soul what the actor desires to convey.  Such is the instrument of the Grand Creator."

from The Ringing Cedars of Russia by Vladimir Megré.

"English with all its nuances can take a lifetime to master."

Winston Churchill

"And who in time knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores
This gain of our best glory shall be sent
T'enrich unknowing Nations with our stores?"

Samuel Daniel 1599

I should like to thank Jez Butler of Bristol University and Mark Brierley for the generous help and advice they have given me in developing this website.

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