More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.