"The International Phonetic Association is like the Episcopal church. One can hold almost any theoretical position as …"

"I wanted to find out why Shelley could write better-sounding poetry than I."

"[It's] not our decision to make. It's up to the people themselves."

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"He did extensive linguistic fieldwork on a scale it had not been done before, and when he brought it back from the fi…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

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"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"

"In 1973, Roger Deakin, a British writer and environmental activist, acquired a tumbledown sixteenth-century farmhouse…"