The English language is ‘the treasure of our tongue’
I’m button-burstingly proud to announce that you’re reading my 500th column in the Union Tribune. Inspired by this milestone (never a millstone), I celebrate our glorious, uproarious, victorious, stupendous, tremendous, end-over-endous English language. In the year 1599, the poet and historian Samuel Daniel sang of the English language that was coming to full flower during […]