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Robert MacNeil
Canadian journalist and writer
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Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, rolling on, changing course, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.
—Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist and writer, The New York Times, September 14, 1986

Posted on February 11, 2004 at 6:40 PM

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