Mark Iliff
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13 September 2016
“English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary”
—James Davis Nicoll
quoted by David Phillips in The gunroom of HMS Surprise
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