In the United States ... anyone who is willing to quarrel with the dictionary is regarded as either eccentric or mad.
—S. I. Hayakawa, U.S. academic and senator, Language in Thought and Action, 1939

Posted on June 12, 1998 at 7:20 AM

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Slang is the poetry of everyday life.
—S. I. Hayakawa, Language in Action

Posted on March 1, 2002 at 7:36 AM

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