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  1. Simon Winchester _ The Meaning of Everything: The

    Jonathan Swift mounted a lifelong attempt to 'fix our language forever'-no critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly slippery flexibility.
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  2. Simon Winchester _ The Meaning of Everything: The

    Our histories, our novels, our poems, our plays-they are all in this one book.
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  3. Simon Winchester _ The Meaning of Everything: The

    No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly slippery flexibility. For English is a language that simply cannot be fixed, not can its use ever be absolutely laid down. It changes constantly; it grows with an almost exponential joy. It evolves eternally; its words alter their senses and their meanings subtly, slowly, or speedily according to fashion and need.
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