1. Seamus Heaney: He has such a bad-ass Irish brogue, and it’s really making me reconsider the way words in the English language should be pronounced. Because convention is absolutely atrocious. Case in point: “TEN-or” vs. “TAY-nor.” Who has the right to say that the latter is “wrong,” when it’s so damn beautiful? I’m going to start a revolution by deliberately “mispronouncing” words now!
-Yin Yin Lu, books editor
