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Notes
Chapter 1
‘confounded their language’ Genesis, 11:7
‘the greatest wonder in England’ The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, arts, sciences &c, James Moyes, 1829
‘answering questions, telling the hour of the day’ Charles Dickens, as quoted in Jay’s Journal of Anomolies, Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Imposters, Pretenders, Side-Show Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels, Popular Entertainments, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001
‘The greatest curiosity of the present day’ Billboard for Toby the Sapient Pig, 1817
‘… spell and read, play at cards’ Billboard for Toby the Sapient Pig, 1817
‘A program of research’ Dwight ‘Wayne’ Batteau, Man/Dolphin Communication Final Report 1966–1967
‘The dolphins were able to’ Louis Herman, Cognition, Herman, Richards, & Wolz, 1984
‘Their capacity for communication’ Robert Frederking as quoted in ‘Whatever happened to … talking dolphins’, Susan Kruglinski, Discover magazine, 2006
‘… about as likely that an ape’ Noam Chomsky, interviewed by Matt Aames Cucchiaro in ‘On the Myth of Ape Language’, email correspondence 2007–8
‘How do you reconcile a tiny chimp’ Jenny Lee, as quoted in Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human, Elizabeth Hess, Random House, 2008
‘Put the pine needles in the refrigerator’ Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Kanzi and novel sentences video, greatapetrust.org
‘I used to think my aim’ Dr Cathy Price, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘Language Acquisition Device’ (LAD), Noam Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, MIT Press, 1965
‘Human communication’ Michael Tomasello, Origins of Human Communication, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008
‘I’m at the front of the lecture hall’ ibid.
‘This is hopefully the first’ Dr Wolfgang Enard, BBC News, 2002
‘Language at a bare minimum’ Steven Pinker, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘… there also has to be some kind of talent’ ibid.
‘ “All gone sticky” … Now that doesn’t correspond’ Steven Pinker, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘ “More outside” .… That’s quite a cognitive feat’ ibid.
‘ “He sticked it on the paper”, ‘He teared the paper”, “We holded the baby rabbits” ibid.
‘It’s an extremely powerful’ ibid.
‘Jean: Okay, Okay, now this is another creature, this one’s called a tass. That’s a tass’ Jean Berko Gleason, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘Young kids’ brains are not formed’ ibid.
‘foster mothers and nurses’ Salimbene di Adam, Chronicle of Salimbene De Adam edited by J.L Baird, G Baglivi and J.R. Kane (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies), Binghamton, NY, April 1986
‘Some say they spoke good Hebrew’ Robert Lyndsay of Pitscottie as quoted in Old and New Edinburgh, James Grant, Cassell & Co, 1880
‘It is more likely they would scream’ Sir Walter Scott, as quoted in ‘The Bird Man of Stirling’, BBC History
‘First he embraced her with his armes’ Vicar of St Martin’s Church, Tudor Era, Headline History website
‘[The] two, when they chanced to meet’ Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall 1602, Mark Press, 2000
‘there comes in that Dumb boy’ Samuel Pepys, The Diaries of
Samuel Pepys, Penguin Classics, 2003
‘The deaf tend’ Janiece Brotton, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘Syntax, the constraints on language’ Judy Shepherd-Kegl, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘Can’t express your feelings’ Adrian Perez, CBS News, 2009
‘The single gesture doesn’t have rhythm’ Judy Shepherd-Kegyl, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘If you’re beyond the critical period’ ibid.
‘You know, we can look back’ ibid.
‘If you have children you’ve had the experience’ ibid.
‘To have a second language is to have a second soul’ Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor
‘I speak French to my ambassadors’ Frederick the Great of Prussia
‘(language) is not merely a reproducing instrument’ Benjamin Whorf, Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf, MIT Press, 1964
‘When my wishes conflict with my family’s’ As quoted by Lee Gardenswartz and Anita Rowe, Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk Reference and Planning Guide, Jossey Bass, 1993
‘In English, we tend to divide our space’ Lera Boroditsky, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011.
‘Chicken and egg isn’t the right way’ ibid.
‘Nearly all of my labours’ Jacob Grimm, Selbstbiographie, from Kleinere Schriften Vol 1 F. Dümmler, Berlin, 1864
‘To réecs éhest (“Once there was a king”)’ J. P. Mallory and D. G. Adams, Encyclopaedia of Indo-European Culture, Fitzroy Dearbon Publishers, 1997
‘Oh no. No, no, no, no!’ Zaha Bustema, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
Chapter 2
‘Learn well the language of the whites’ Anonymous, Hawaii, 1896
‘In the old days,’ Aju, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘At my home I speak Akha’ Aju, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘Irish golfer’, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘We next reached Skibbereen …’ James Mahony, The Illustrated London News, 1847
‘I have been assured’ Jonathan Swift, Modest Proposal (for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public), Prometheus Books UK, September 1995
‘If we allow one of the finest’ Douglas Hyde, An leabhar sgeulaigheachta, Dublin Gill, 1889
‘I would earnestly appeal’ Douglas Hyde, The Necessity for De-anglicising Ireland, Academic Press, Leiden, 1994
‘The Gaelic League restored the language to its place’ Michael Collins, The Path To Freedom, Talbot Press Ltd, Dublin 1922
‘to build up a Celtic and Irish school of dramatic literature’ Lady Augusta Persse Gregory, Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography, GP Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, New York and London, 1913
‘as calm and collected as Queen Victoria’ As quoted by Carmel Joyce, Inspirational Figures from Irish History (Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory, Samuel Beckett, playwrights), World of Hibernia, 2000
‘You have to remember that Irish as a language was spoken up till the 1840s and 50s by many, perhaps the majority of Irish people’ Declan Kiberd, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘I know that if you were to speak’ Hugh Farley, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘I think that we have as a nation’ ibid.
‘ “nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil” ’ (‘Some say oc, others say si, others say oïl” ’) Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia (Cambridge Medieval Classics), translated by Steve Botterill, Cambridge University Press, 1996
‘The monarchy had reasons to resemble the Tower of Babel’ Bertrand Barère, National Convention, 1794
‘My grandparents speak Breton too’ Nicolas de la Casiniere, Ecoles Diwan, La Bosse du Breton, 1998
‘Instead of setting their ambitions’ Frédéric Mistral, Speech to the Félibres of Catalonia as quoted by Jennifer Michael in Journal of American Folklore 111, American Folklore Society, 1998
‘in recognition of the fresh originality’ Frédéric Mistral, The Nobel Foundation, 1904
‘I was profoundly shocked’ President Chirac, EU Summit, March 2006, as reported in Nicholas Watt and David Gow, ‘Chirac vows to fight growing use of English’, Guardian, 25 March 2006
‘… because that is the accepted business language of Europe today’ Ernest-Antoine Seilliere, as quoted in ‘Chirac upset by English address’, BBC News, 24 March 2006
‘But you know, what they, the regional languages, have lost is not too much’ Marc Fumaroli, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘Jesus said, “Love is everything” ’ Dr Ghil’ad Zuckermann, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘Israeli is a very complex language’ ibid.
‘The Hebrew language can live only if we revive the nation’ Eliezer Ben Yehuda as quoted in Jew! Speak Hebrew, Aliyon, 2005, on the Jewish Agency for Israel website www.jafi.org.il
‘In a heavy atmosphere’ David Yudeleviz, as quoted by Ilan Stavans ‘Crusoe in Israel’, Pakn Treger: The magazine of the Yiddish Book Center, No. 58, December 2009, yiddishbookcenter.org
‘Yiddish speaks itself beneath Israeli’ Dr Ghil’ad Zuckermann, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘Yiddish has not yet said its last word’ Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel Lectures 1978, Literature 1968–80, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 1993
‘There is one people – Jews … and its language is – Yiddish’ I. L. Peretz, quoted in Dr Birnboym’s Vokhnblat #2, Czernowitz, 1908 (translated by Marvin Zuckerman and Marion Herbst from Nakhmen Meisel, Briv unredes fun, YKUF, New York, 1944)
‘It’s a great language for saying the man’s a dick’ Stewie Stone, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘The nebach is the guy getting the water when you’re going on a football team’ Ari Teman, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘For an older Jewish audience’ Stewie Stone, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘I sent a rabbi a joke’ Ari Teman, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘When one Jew meets another Jew’ Stewie Stone, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘Yiddish is basically our soul’ ibid.
‘I grew up, and I was bah mitzvahed’ ibid.
‘Hebrew comes from the vocal chords’ ibid.
‘a serous and watery purgative motion’ John Wilkins, An Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, The Royal Society, 1668, Thoemmes Continuum, Facsimile Ed edition, January 2002
‘I was taught that all men were brothers’ Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof in a letter to N. Borovko, 1895, quoted by David Poulson in Origin of Esperanto July 1998
‘We believe it is a language’ Littlewoods, BBC News, July 2008
‘If you lose a contract to a Moroccan rival’ Jean Paul Nerriere, Parlez Globish, Eyrolles, 2006
‘It’s a proletarian and popular idiom’ ibid.
‘The only jokes which cross frontiers’ Jean Paul Nerriere, as quoted by Adam Sage, ‘Globish cuts English down to size’, The Times, December 2006
‘I am helping the rescue of French’ Jean Paul Nerriere, Parlez Globish, Eyrolles, April 2006
‘To make up a non-human language’ Mark Okrand, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘because there’s lots of zees and zots in science fiction’ ibid.
‘We arrived on the set one day’ ibid.
‘You have not experienced Shakespeare’ ibid.
‘My son was born in 1994’ ibid.
‘Well, he was learning it’ Dr d’Ormond Speers, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘I would say something to him in Klingon’ ibid.
‘The reason this language is so successful’ Arika Okrent, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘Well, it’s given me a deeper appreciation’ ibid.
‘A language is a dialect with an army and a navy’ Max Weinreich, Der yivo un di problemen fun undzer tsayt, New York, 1945
‘long es and very slow’; ‘they don’t say their ts’ Ian McMillan, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘That’s where an isogloss happens’ ibid.
‘My Aunty Mabel, who was from Chesterfield’ ibid.
‘Whenever I speak in my voice’ ibid.
‘So, somehow, the language carries on’ ibid.
‘When the word dies’ Ian McMillan, ‘Utopia! If you frame thissen properly, that is’, Yorkshire Post, 23 August 2010
‘And when I was first on the radio’ Ian McMillan, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘It is the business of educated people’ Arthur Burrell, as quoted in the Journal of International Phonetic Association, 1987, p. 21
‘One hears the most appalling travesties’ John Reith, Broadcast Over Britain, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1924
‘be able to recognize instantly’ BBC 1940
‘And to all in the North, good neet’ Wilfred Pickles, BBC Radio, c.1940
‘It is impossible for an Englishman’ George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (Preface to Pygmalion) Penguin Classics, revised edition, January 2003
‘Having one’s cards engraved … ’ Professor Alan Ross in Nancy Mitford (ed.), Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy, 1956
‘Phone for the fish knives, Norman’ John Betjeman in Nancy Mitford (ed.), Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy, Hamish Hamilton, 1956
‘Can a non-U-speaker become a U-speaker?’ Professor Alan Ross in Nancy Mitford (ed.), Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy, Hamish Hamilton, 1956
‘Why should they hide it?’ Lawrence Fenley, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
‘In the twenty-first century’ ibid.
‘It is only when, usually, you have an issue’ ibid.
‘May it be forbidden that we should ever speak like BBC announcers’ Wilfred Pickles, Between You and Me, Werner Laurie. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd
‘Barnsley’s what I think with’ Ian McMillan, Fry’s Planet Word, BBC 2011
Chapter 3
‘Those are the heavy seven’ George Carlin, ‘Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television’, Class Clown, Atlantic, 1972
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