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I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

~Ben Schott

Topics: Always Dialects Dictionaries Language Loved Slang

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Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is allowing more people to influence spelling than ever before.

~David Crystal

Topics: Allowing Before Choices Dictionaries Eventually Ever Influence Internet Made More More People People Popular Reflect Spelling Than

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Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

~David Crystal

Topics: Choices Dictionaries Eventually Made People Popular Reflect

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I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

~Drew Barrymore

Topics: Collect Convey Dictionaries Dictionary English English Language Intention Kid Language Old Powerful Sensitive Studied Think Very Words I Think

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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Topics: Composition Dictionaries Distraction Enough Excellent Impossible Painful Reading Times

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One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Also Any Browse Coastline Country Creatures Dictionaries Favorite Fictional Find Historical Inspiration Inspire Like Me Reclusive Reference Seems Shelf Those Visual Way Ways World

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