English
- William Paton Ker (1889-1920)
- Raymond Wilson Chambers (1922-1949)
- Albert Hugh Smith (1949-1963)
- Randolph Quirk (1968-1981)
- Sidney Greenbaum (1983–1990)
- Rosemary Ashton
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“Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.”
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Unkempt about those hedges blows
An English unofficial rose;”
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“The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.”
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