Dialects Of English Quotes

#1. This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

William Labov

#2. Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

John McWhorter

#3. Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land was defined by many borders. Now there's only one that matters. And I am on the wrong side of it.

Georgia Clark

#4. The highway authorities clearly did not think it worth their while wasting road salt on this useless bit of roadway.

Maj Sjowall

#5. Your voice is important - it gives away everything about you. The mouth is a muscle you have to work like you'd work at the gym.

Jason Clarke

#6. The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

Franz Grillparzer

#7. The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#8. I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.

George Gissing

#9. Things do not always work out as we have planned, do they? Sometimes the hardest thing is not to just survive the grief, but to step around it and move on. It helps if your suitcases are not so full.

Karen White

#10. Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Agnes De Mille

#11. However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

William Labov

#12. But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

Mel Tillis