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.

It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

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