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Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Sam Cooke

Samuel Johnson - entry into the first English Dictionary
"Oats - a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people".

George Bernard Shaw - Preface to 'Pygmallion'
"The English have no respect for their language and will not teach their children to speak it. They cannot spell it because they have nothing to spell it with but an old foreign alphabet of which only the consonants - and not all of them - have any great speech value. Consequently, no man can teach himself what it should sound like from reading it and it is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him".