• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist 1819-1892
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1. composition
2. compacted
3. growth
4. every
5. range

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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. by : Walt Whitman

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