Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.

"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."

"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!

Lewis Carroll

Tag: writing usage word-choice

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I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi polloi, never "the hoi polloi," because hoi meant "the," and two "the's" were redundant -- indeed something only hoi polloi would say.

Anne Fadiman

Tag: grammar usage

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To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

Jack Lynch

Tag: history language english usage

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