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Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

My vocabulary is vast and expert, and I don't think I overuse any word.