Orthographic Quotes

#1. The gh at the end of many modern words, however, like dough, cough, and trough, is actually an artifact not of Dutch orthographic tendencies, but of Norman distaste for the Middle English letter yogh, which looked like this: 3. Yogh fell out of use around the end of the fifteenth century.

David Wolman

#2. The year 1946 was the watershed: generations born after that were increasingly exposed to the new, poorer orthographic style and gradually became reluctant to read anything written before the changes unless it was rewritten in that style.

Minae Mizumura

#3. I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

Grant Morrison

#4. You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.

Kiefer Sutherland

#5. Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

Diane Ravitch

#6. Joyful people make us come alive.

John Ortberg

#7. I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.

Mario Monti

#8. Common boys fight with wooden swords too, only theirs are sticks and broken branches.

George R R Martin