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‘confounded their language’ Genesis , 11:7

‘the greatest wonder in England’ The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, arts, sciences &c, James Moyes, 1829

‘answering questions, telling the hour of the day’Charles Dickens, as quoted in Jay’s Journal of Anomolies, Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Imposters, Pretenders, Side-Show Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels, Popular Entertainments, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001

‘The greatest curiosity of the present day’Billboard for Toby the Sapient Pig, 1817

‘… spell and read, play at cards’Billboard for Toby the Sapient Pig, 1817

‘A program of research’Dwight ‘Wayne’ Batteau, Man/Dolphin Communication Final Report 1966–1967

‘The dolphins were able to’Louis Herman, Cognition , Herman, Richards, & Wolz, 1984

‘Their capacity for communication’Robert Frederking as quoted in ‘Whatever happened to … talking dolphins’, Susan Kruglinski, Discover magazine, 2006

‘… about as likely that an ape’Noam Chomsky, interviewed by Matt Aames Cucchiaro in ‘On the Myth of Ape Language’, email correspondence 2007–8

‘How do you reconcile a tiny chimp’Jenny Lee, as quoted in Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human , Elizabeth Hess, Random House, 2008

‘Put the pine needles in the refrigerator’Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Kanzi and novel sentences video, greatapetrust.org

‘I used to think my aim’Dr Cathy Price, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘Language Acquisition Device’(LAD), Noam Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax , MIT Press, 1965

‘Human communication’Michael Tomasello, Origins of Human Communication, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008

‘I’m at the front of the lecture hall’ibid.

‘This is hopefully the first’Dr Wolfgang Enard, BBC News, 2002

‘Language at a bare minimum’Steven Pinker, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘… there also has to be some kind of talent’ibid.

‘ “All gone sticky” … Now that doesn’t correspond’Steven Pinker, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘ “More outside”.… That’s quite a cognitive feat’ibid.

‘ “He sticked it on the paper”, ‘He teared the paper”, “We holded the baby rabbits”ibid.

‘It’s an extremely powerful’ibid.

‘Jean: Okay, Okay, now this is another creature, this one’s called a tass. That’s a tass’Jean Berko Gleason, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘Young kids’ brains are not formed’ibid.

‘foster mothers and nurses’Salimbene di Adam, Chronicle of Salimbene De Adam edited by J.L Baird, G Baglivi and J.R. Kane ( Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies ) , Binghamton, NY, April 1986

‘Some say they spoke good Hebrew’Robert Lyndsay of Pitscottie as quoted in Old and New Edinburgh , James Grant, Cassell & Co, 1880

‘It is more likely they would scream’Sir Walter Scott, as quoted in ‘The Bird Man of Stirling’ , BBC History

‘First he embraced her with his armes’Vicar of St Martin’s Church, Tudor Era, Headline History website

‘[The] two, when they chanced to meet’Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall 1602, Mark Press, 2000

‘there comes in that Dumb boy’Samuel Pepys, The Diaries of Samuel Pepys , Penguin Classics, 2003

‘The deaf tend’Janiece Brotton, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘Syntax, the constraints on language’Judy Shepherd-Kegl, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘Can’t express your feelings’Adrian Perez, CBS News, 2009

‘The single gesture doesn’t have rhythm’Judy Shepherd-Kegyl, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘If you’re beyond the critical period’ibid.

‘You know, we can look back’ibid.

‘If you have children you’ve had the experience’ibid.

‘To have a second language is to have a second soul’Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor

‘I speak French to my ambassadors’Frederick the Great of Prussia

‘(language) is not merely a reproducing instrument’Benjamin Whorf, Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf , MIT Press, 1964

‘When my wishes conflict with my family’s’As quoted by Lee Gardenswartz and Anita Rowe, Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk Reference and Planning Guide, Jossey Bass, 1993

‘In English, we tend to divide our space’Lera Boroditsky, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011.

‘Chicken and egg isn’t the right way’ibid.

‘Nearly all of my labours’Jacob Grimm, Selbstbiographie, from Kleinere Schriften Vol 1 F. Dümmler, Berlin, 1864

‘To réecs éhest (“Once there was a king”)’J. P. Mallory and D. G. Adams, Encyclopaedia of Indo-European Culture, Fitzroy Dearbon Publishers, 1997