"A western scholar must de-europeanize himself, and, in view of the most universal use of English, an Englishman must …"

"Collocations are actual words in habitual company. A word in a usual collocation stares you in the face just as it is…"

"The phonetic animal par excellence is man. All men are born with an infinite capacity for making noises and using them."

"It is not easy to determine what are the units of speech. Some would say speech sounds, others phonemes... The genera…"

"The complete meaning of a word is always contextual, and no study of meaning apart from context can be taken seriously."

"Research into the detailed contextual distribution of sociologically important words, what one might call focal or pi…"

"The study of such words as work, labour, trade, employ, occupy, play, leisure, time, hours, means, self-respect, in a…"

"Meaning... is to be regarded as a complex of contextual relations, and phonetics, grammar, lexicography, and semantic…"

"Strictly speaking, the grammatical method of resolving a sentence into parts is nothing but a fanciful procedure ; bu…"

"Speech is our most valuable instrument, because we can make it fit our common lives. We are not born to follow words.…"