I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.
Camila Cabello did an amazing job with 'Havana.' It's Spanish, but it's English.
I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.
The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.
I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion of any organized politics.
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.
He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.
We have a very long legal system with the European Union, and we're English speaking.
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.
Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.
English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.
