#english

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

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Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

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Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. ↗

— Terry Prachett

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I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language. ↗

— Christopher Walken

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It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell. ↗

— Helen Reddy

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There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#forty #germans #important #machines #minority

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English. ↗

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

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I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

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