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Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
| Marcel Achard, Playwright (1899) |
| Harold Acton, Historian (1904) |
| Todd Akin, Politician (1947) |
| Frederick Lewis Allen, Editor (1890) |
| P. T. Barnum, Entertainer (1810) |
| Hollie Cavanagh, Musician (1993) |
| Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Celebrity (1948) |
| Edie Falco, Actress (1963) |
| Shane Filan, Musician (1979) |
| Hazrat Inayat Khan, Clergyman (1882) |
| Wilhelm Backhaus, Musician (1969) |
| Bruce Barton, Author (1967) |
| Charles Fillmore, Educator (1948) |
| James Norman Hall, Author (1951) |
| Kenneth Lay, Businessman (2006) |


