• It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.

    Phyllis Bentley: It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.
    Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz