To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two … - Jack Lynch

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Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth

Jack Lynch

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

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There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

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A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job.

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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

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