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

Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

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.

Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.