![]() ABC’s of Canadian grammar (Canadianese) In Canada, things are very honest. - Jim Pattison Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs Speech is of time; silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life. - Donald Trump A Canadian is somebody who can make love in a canoe. - Margaret Lally Ratify: To use a spell and turn a person into a rodent - Daffynitions joe-ks.com The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget. - Ellen Page Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Warren G Bennis I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. - Thomas Edison There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi. - Humphrey Bogart When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence. - Luqman Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair. - Keith Richards Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada. - Patti LaBelle England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami. - Larry the Cable Guy Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. - Prince Philip I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again. - Kevin O'Leary I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me his watch. - Woody Allen I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. - Matthew Perry Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown 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 The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots. - Carl Sandburg I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies. - Jay Baruchel 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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