Marcin

“If there is one thing certain about English pronunciation it is that there is almost nothing certain about it. No other language in the world has more words spelled the same way and yet pronounced differently.”
― Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way

“If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“A foreigner could be excused for thinking that to know set is to know English.”
― Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way

“At a minimum the name should puzzle foreigners—this is a basic requirement of most British institutions—and ideally it should excite long and inconclusive debate, defy all logical explanation, and evoke images that border on the surreal. Among”
― Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way