Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Not Proper English
Tom Shippey, Roots and Branches. Selected Papers on Tolkien (Berne: Walking Tree Publishers, 2007), p. 313:
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"Need brooks no delay, yet late is better than never".... Incidentally, at the end of my US citizenship interview I was told to write a sentence to prove I could speak English, and wrote that one, with sardonic reference to the years the whole process had taken: the interviewer rejected it as not proper English.
