English
- William Paton Ker (1889-1920)
- Raymond Wilson Chambers (1922-1949)
- Albert Hugh Smith (1949-1963)
- Randolph Quirk (1968-1981)
- Sidney Greenbaum (1983–1990)
- Rosemary Ashton
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Famous quotes containing the word english:
“An English man does not travel to see English men.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.”
—Sixteenth-century English proverb.
“So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,—the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their “good breeding” respects only secondary objects.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)