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George W. Bush is mocked for strangling grammar. But he can hold his head up high in the new Oxford Dictionary of Quotations published on Thursday.

The U.S. President makes a respectable first appearance in one of the world's most famous reference books with his notorious "Axis of Evil" speech about Iran, Iraq and North Korea. Bush, long renowned for his malapropisms, has in the past offered such gems as misunderestimate, embetter and resignate.

But Oxford dictionary editor Elizabeth Knowles works on very different criteria for new entrants in the revered tome.

"You look at the quotation, not at their linguistic dexterity," she told reporters.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush's closest ally in the war on Iraq, is given prominence for waxing lyrical in appropriately Shakespearean tones in the lead-up to the conflict: "This is not the time to falter." Intriguingly the latest edition of the famous sayings book first published in 1941 highlights how history has a way of repeating itself when it comes to the memorable soundbite.

Bill Clinton, watching the saga of the Florida chaos unfolding in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, said: "The American people have spoken -- but it's going to take a little time to determine what they said."

That echoed the complaint by British Conservative statesman Lord Salisbury in 1877: "One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken, you never know what it means."

"We are constantly trying to pick up material that has become newly resonant," Knowles said, citing a John Quincy Adams quote that struck a chord after the September 11 attacks on the United States.

"Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy."  

(Agencies)

malapropism: the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar（詞語誤用，用詞錯誤可笑）

entrants: one that enters, especially one that enters a competition（進入者、尤指參加一項競賽的人）

resonant: producing or exhibiting resonance（共鳴的、共振的產生或顯示共鳴的）

benediction: a blessing（祝福）