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We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde The King’s English is not …

The counters merely say that the person is rejected – he does not belong to the group. In uttering the …

American slang is the body of words and expressions frequently used by or intelligible to a rather large portion of …

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the …

The Iberians. The prehistoric inhabitants of Britain seem to have been of the iberian type; we know, however, that they …

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike – and I don’t think there really is …

An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication. Carl …

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) He was a famous poet and essayist of Victorian England. In his Essays in Criticism as well …