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Smith was fortunate that, thanks to six years of study at Oxford, he had acquired the spoken and written English of England. Hume’s English by contrast was always that of a Scotsman, and he never lost his strong Scottish accent. He might be acknowledged across Europe as one of the intellectual titans of the age, but until the end of his life, he remained anxious about “Scotticisms” in his writings, relying on English friends to check his manuscripts before publication so any such blemishes could be removed.
Gramsci's Common Sense
Kate Crehan
The thing about storytelling and storytelling norms is that the more we hear a story, the more we are able to tell a story like it.
The Craft of Writing: Matthew Salesses on the Possibilities Of
Climate Fiction
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With the women and not the men in control, points out N. Kannammal, a leading Arivoli activist, family spending patterns change. ‘Most of the money is spent on the families, not on arrack. The women have proved much better at fighting poverty.’
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
P Sainath
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