“I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.”— Mark Twain Related Quotes “Pot itself has nothing to do with pots and pans, but comes from the Mexican-Spanish word potiguaya, which means marijuana leaves. And marijuana is a Mexification of ‘Mary Jane’ for reasons that everybody is much too stoned to remember.”— Mark Forsyth “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”— James D. Nicoll “Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.”— Joseph Conrad