03/12/2010 (5:01 am)
who said or wrote "one people seperated by a common language"
2) (Of England and America) ?Two nations separated by a common language.? Sometimes the inquirer asks, ?Was it Wilde or Shaw?? The answer appears to be: both. In The Canterville Ghost (1887), Wilde wrote: ?We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language?. However, the 1951 Treasury of Humorous Quotations (Esar & Bentley) quotes Shaw as saying: ?England and America are two countries separated by the same language?, but without giving a source. The quote had earlier been attributed to Shaw in Reader?s Digest (November 1942). Much the same idea occurred to Bertrand Russell (Saturday Evening Post, 3 June 1944): ?It is a misfortune for Anglo-American friendship that the two countries are supposed to have a common language?, and in a radio talk prepared by Dylan Thomas shortly before his death (and published after it in The Listener, April 1954) - European writers and scholars in America were, he said, ?up against the barrier of a common language?. Inevitably this sort of dubious attribution has also been seen: ?Winston Churchill said our two countries were divided by a common language? (The Times, 26 January 1987; The European, 22 November 1991.)The trouble with these 'references' that the Readers Digest and recent newspapers are not exactly sound sources. Mostly people seem to attribute it to Shaw - which means nothing.
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