Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.
The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food?
How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously not desperate and poor refugee dwellers. They were middle class, educated enough to speak English, to be able to go to flight school, to come to America, to live in Florida.
On the one hand, there is no question that English - frequently bad English - has become the universal language of scholarship. It is clearly a tremendous handicap for people outside of the United States, Britain, and Australia and a few other countries because few of them are native speakers, but we demand that they present and publish in English.
Between last night and this morning, I've been getting a lot of messages from overseas fans along the lines of 'There's an American comic ripping off Bleach!' I'm not that good at English, but I looked at the site and it seems it's a comic by Nick Simmons, the son of Gene Simmons. To be honest, I'm more bothered by the fact that Gene Simmons' son is a comic artist than whether or not it's a rip-off.
In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.
Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.
There is so much more content in English that a lot of people have a hard time filtering through the noise.
It's a tough path to citizenship. You've got to pay back taxes. You've got to learn English. You've got to have a clear record. You've got to get to the back of the line behind other people who have come here legally or even waiting legally.
We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English.
I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.