Jean Aitchison Quotes:
Life: b. 1938
Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact, there was never such a year. The language of Chaucer's or Shakespeare's time was no better and no worse than that of our own - just different.
source: Jean Aitchison (2013). “Language Change: Progress Or Decay?”, p.14, Cambridge University Press
topic: Writing, Years, Vintage, Chaucer
