"All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other."

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Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.

— James Kenneth Stephen