A Quote by Peter Farb

Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.

Peter Farb

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Peter Farb
American - Author
Born: 1929

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