English Speakers

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“The difference is wide that the sheets will not decide.”
—English proverb, collected in John Ray, English Proverbs (1670)

“The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the ‘creativity of language,’ that is, the speaker’s ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately understood by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are ‘familiar.’”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)