Top 6 Quotes by Jack Lynch

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.

Communication, Style, Pepsi

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

Powerful, Mean, Two

Jack Lynch (2009). “The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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.

Jobs, Thinking, Fans

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

Government, People, Innocence

"Honeymoon ended early for troops as North descended into three decades of violence". www.irishtimes.com. August 14, 1999.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

Dictionary

Jack Lynch (2009). “The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

Police, Accepted, Force

"Keeping the hawks at bay while retaining control of the party". www.irishtimes.com. October 21, 1999.

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