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

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

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

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

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

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism