"Words rise and fall in popularity, as the needs of daily life change, and also as the hip try to sound different from the dweebs and graybeards." ~Steven Pinker

"Look at the... deterioration which our Queen's English has undergone at the hands of the Americans! Look at those phrases which so annoy us in their books and speeches, at their reckless exaggeration and contempt for congruity!"
~ Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury (1863)

"The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest."
~ Cyril Connolly