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Henry Hitchings
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“Early experience conditions adult life; childhood is the precinct in which we learn the rituals of maturity.”
Henry Hitchings (born 1974) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Henry Hitchings, Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Book that Defined the World, first edition 2005, 2006 paperback edition, page 11 (ISBN 0719566320).
“The eighteenth century was seized by a rage for order, manifest in a range of new phenomena: the price tag, standardised weights and measures, the proliferation of signposts on public highways, the increased use of account books and calendars.”
Henry Hitchings (born 1974) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Henry Hitchings, Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Book that Defined the World, first edition 2005, 2006 paperback edition, page 46 (ISBN 0719566320).
“Etymology is perennially fascinating because it revives the forgotten poetry of the everyday.”
Henry Hitchings (born 1974) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Henry Hitchings, Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Book that Defined the World, first edition 2005, 2006 paperback edition, page 88 (ISBN 0719566320).
“Languages, we know, do not stand still. New words are borrowed or invented. Others become obsolete. Morphology alters. So does pronunciation. Words are tools we use to communicate; they bend to our needs. Many change their meanings. Some acquire prestige, and others are degraded.”
Henry Hitchings (born 1974) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Henry Hitchings, Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Book that Defined the World, first edition 2005, 2006 paperback edition, page 232 (ISBN 0719566320).
“It is doughty, authoritative, wide-ranging; lavish in its citations and self consciously literary; patriotic, pious, and politically charged; sometimes quirky, often elegant, and occasionally obscure; keenly attentive to many of the age's new developments, yet negligent of others; an extension and refinement of existing lexicographic tradition, but also a starting point for new ones; and the culmination of an extraordinary, strenuous labour which both degraded and ennobled its author.”
Henry Hitchings (born 1974) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Henry Hitchings, Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Book that Defined the World, first edition 2005, 2006 paperback edition, page 238-239 (ISBN 0719566320).