As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.