This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But secretly, I knew that I was quite wrong. - Bill Bryson

It was impossible to determine what he was saying, but I imagined he was telling all those present that they were nongs and maggots. I decided I quite liked watching the news with the sound off.

The older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.

Perhaps nothing speaks more eloquently of the variability of spelling in the age than the fact that a dictionary published in 1604, A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Words, spelled “words” two ways on the title page.