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'''James Davis Nicoll''' (born ], ]<ref>{{cite newsgroup| url=http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Nov1.154603.21685@watdragon.waterloo.edu| accessdate=2006-12-24| title= Reading habits research paper| author=James Davis Nicoll| date= Nov 1 1991| id=1991Nov1.154603.21685@watdragon.waterloo.edu| newsgroup=rec.arts.comics}}</ref>) of ], ], is a former ] store owner, a freelance game and ] reviewer, and a ] personality. '''James Davis Nicoll''' (born ], ]) {{fact}} of ], ], is a former ] store owner, a freelance game and ] reviewer, and a noted ] personality.

The following epigram first written by James D. Nicoll is from 1990 and has been attributed to everyone from ] to a nineteenth-century painter also named ]:<ref>{{cite web
| publisher = ''LINGUIST'' mailing-list
| last = Kemmer
| first = Suzanne
| authorlink = Suzanne Kemmer
| title = James D. Nicoll quote - mystery solved
| url = http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0203a&L=ads-l&P=9336
| date = ]
| accessdate = 2007-05-12
}} {{ISSN|1068-4875}}</ref>
:''The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.''<ref>{{cite newsgroup| url=http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1990May15.155309.8892@watdragon.waterloo.edu&hl=en| id=1990May15.155309.8892@watdragon.waterloo.edu| newsgroup= rec.arts.sf-lovers| title= The King's English| author=Brian or James| date=May 15 1990| accessdate=2006-12-24}}</ref>


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James Davis Nicoll (born March 18, 1961) of Kitchener, Ontario, is a former role-playing game store owner, a freelance game and SF reviewer, and a noted Usenet personality.

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