![]() ABC’s of Canadian grammar (Canadianese) Canada is hockey. - Mike Weir Canada was built on dead beavers. - Margaret Atwood Scotland is the Canada of England. - Rainn Wilson Canada and space are a natural fit. - Marc Garneau Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham Canada's the best country in the world. - Justin Bieber Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace. - Charles H Spurgeon Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates Ratify: To use a spell and turn a person into a rodent - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Canada has always been there to help people who need it. - Justin Trudeau Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. - Robin Williams All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad. - Arnold Edinborough I failed kindergarten because I couldn't spell my last name. - Zach Galifianakis Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair. - Keith Richards Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. - Marshall McLuhan We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. - Prince Philip The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z. - Dr. Seuss Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right. - A. A. Milne An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. - Jack Welch If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running. - Malcolm Gladwell The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle see also Canada, Language & School Sections Babble Language Basic Rules of English Spelling and Grammar Books Never Written Commas Save Lives Cyberbulbs Does A Double Positive Equal A Negative? Double Negative Education Engish Language First Impressions Foot Sign Language I Like Cooking Inflationary Language Language Converter Language Lunacy Lerts Little Johnny’s Beautiful Examples One Thousand Words Oxford Comma Practice Safe Text Punctuation Matters |
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