https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 22 May 2026 18:25:58 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/cobbett-william/38149/ https://wist.info/cobbett-william/38149/#respond Wed, 25 Oct 2017 01:02:08 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=38149 Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us, not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

William Cobbett (1763-1835) English politician, agriculturist, journalist, pamphleteer
A Grammar of the English Language, Letter 2 (1818)
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