“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.”

Share & Save

Meaning

Not documented yet.

When It Was Said

Not documented yet.

Who It Was Said To

Not documented yet.

Historical Context

Not documented yet.

Source

Not documented yet.

Original Language & Translation

Originally said in English.

Did They Really Say It?

Not documented yet.

Did You Know?

Not documented yet.

About Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester is quoted here; further biographical details are not publicly available.

More from Simon Winchester (21 quotes) →

READ THE SOURCE

Books by Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman CD

2005

VIEW ON AMAZON

The meaning of everything

2003

VIEW ON AMAZON

The Fracture Zone

1999

VIEW ON AMAZON

The Surgeon of Crowthorne

1998

VIEW ON AMAZON