Gilbert Highet: Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

-- Gilbert Highet


		Name: Gilbert Highet Type: Writer Nationality: Scottish Birth: June 22, 1906 Death: 1978

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