English Use
- The word also has an English meaning, as the plural of sham, a synonym for hoax or fraud. With this origin, it may refer to:
- The Shams, an all-female folk pop trio from New York
- Shamrock Rovers FC, a football club playing in the League of Ireland
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Famous quotes containing the word english:
“The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Chaucer’s remarkably trustful and affectionate character appears in his familiar, yet innocent and reverent, manner of speaking of his God. He comes into his thought without any false reverence, and with no more parade than the zephyr to his ear.... There is less love and simple, practical trust in Shakespeare and Milton. How rarely in our English tongue do we find expressed any affection for God! Herbert almost alone expresses it, “Ah, my dear God!””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)