Quotes From "How To Speak And Write Correctly" By Joseph Devlin

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The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part of the United States of America. It sprang from the German tongue spoken by the Teutons, who came over to Britain after the conquest of that country by the Romans. These Teutons comprised Angles, Saxons, Jutes and several other tribes from the northern part of Germany. They spoke different dialects, but these became blended in the new country, and the composite tongue came to be known as the Anglo-Saxon which has been the main basis for the language as at present constituted and is still the prevailing element. . Joseph Devlin
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A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there. Joseph Devlin