The Fight for English Quotes

“This is a lesson everyone who studies language eventually learns. You cannot stop language change. You may not like it ; you may regret the arrival of new forms and the passing of old ones but there is not the slightest thing you can do about it. Language change is as natural as breathing. It is one of the linguistic facts of life.”
― David Crystal, The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left