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A.A. Milne
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Andrew Jackson
It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
Bronson Alcott
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872
Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.
Henry Louis Mencken, The American Language
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
Mark Twain
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
Owens Lee Pomeroy
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!
R?my de Gourmont
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
Raymond Chandler
When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split.
Richard C. Trench
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
William Safire
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
Winston Churchill
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
 
 
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