Using language

Martin Pennock asks: What’s in a Quaker word?

by Martin Pennock 17th January 2014

British Quakers in the early twenty-first century seem to be a very articulate bunch. You only have to look at a typical edition of the Friend, the Friends Quarterly or Quaker Voices to realise this. For a Society that places such importance upon silent waiting we use a lot of words to explain ourselves to each other and to those who would understand us.